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The Essential Tension - Competition, Cooperation and Multilevel Selection in Evolution (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Essential Tension - Competition, Cooperation and Multilevel Selection in Evolution (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
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'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete
come to act together as a group. The author argues that the
controversial concept of multilevel selection is essential to
biological evolution, a proposition set to stimulate new debate.
The idea of one collective unit emerging from the cooperative
interactions of its constituent (and mutually competitive) parts
has its roots in the ancient world. More recently, it has
illuminated studies of animal behavior, and played a controversial
role in evolutionary biology. In Part I, the author explores the
historical development of the idea of a collectivity in biological
systems, from early speculations on the sociology of human crowd
behavior, through the mid-twentieth century debates over the role
of group selection in evolution, to the notion of the selfish gene.
Part II investigates the balance between competition and
cooperation in a range of contemporary biological problems, from
flocking and swarming to experimental evolution and the evolution
of multicellularity. Part III addresses experimental studies of
cooperation and competition, as well as controversial ideas such as
the evolution of evolvability and Stephen Jay Gould's suggestion
that "spandrels" at one level of selection serve as possible
sources of variability for the next higher level. Finally, building
on the foundation established in the preceding chapters, the author
arrives at a provocative new proposition: as a result of the
essential tension between competition and cooperation, multiple
levels may be essential in order for evolutionary processes to
occur at all.
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