Essential Tension

Competition, Cooperation and Multilevel Selection in Evolution

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-12-15
Mått155 x 235 x 29 mm
Vikt766 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieFrontiers Collection
Antal sidor377
FörlagSpringer
ISBN9789402410525

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Introduction.- Part I: The History of an Idea.- Crowds.- Classification.- ‘Time, just Time’: Integrating up the Great Chain of Being.- The Battle of the Parts.- Synthesis?.- Selfish Creatures, Huddled together for Warmth.- The Vanishing Point Appears.- Part II: At the Frontier.- Flocking, Swarming and Communicating.- Quorum Sensing and Biofilms.- Multicellularity: Dicty.- Multicellularity: Volvox.- Experimental Evolution.- Part III: Beyond the Barricade.- Cooperation and Competition: One Level Sitting on Another.- Evol = f(Evol).- Spandrels, Exaptations and Raw Material.- The Essential Tension.- Index.