Cooperation and Its Evolution
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Overview
This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that range from empirical survey to conceptual modeling, reflecting the rich diversity of work in the field. They explore a wide taxonomic range, concentrating on bacteria, social insects, and, especially, humans.
Part I ("Agents and Environments") investigates the connections of social cooperation in social organizations to the conditions that make cooperation profitable and stable, focusing on the interactions of agent, population, and environment. Part II ("Agents and Mechanisms") focuses on how proximate mechanisms emerge and operate in the evolutionary process and how they shape evolutionary trajectories. Throughout the book, certain themes emerge that demonstrate the ubiquity of questions regarding cooperation in evolutionary biology: the generation and division of the profits of cooperation; transitions in individuality; levels of selection, from gene to organism; and the "human cooperation explosion" that makes our own social behavior particularly puzzling from an evolutionary perspective.
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552783 |
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| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Publication date: | 08/06/2024 |
| Series: | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology |
| Pages: | 592 |
| Product dimensions: | 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Richard Joyce is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington and author of The Evolution of Morality (MIT Press, 2006) and The Myth of Morality (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Brett Calcott is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the ASU/SFI Center for Complex Biosocial Systems in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and coeditor (with Kim Sterelny) of The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited (MIT Press, 2011).
Ben Fraser is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Philosophy Program at Australian National University.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Ubiquity, Complexity, and Diversity of Cooperation Kim Sterelny Richard Joyce Brett Calcott Ben Fraser 1
I Agents and Environments 15
1 The Evolution of Individualistic Norms Don Ross 17
2 Timescales, Symmetry, and Uncertainty Reduction in the Origins of Hierarchy in Biological Systems Jessica C. Flack Doug Erwin Tanya Elliot David C. Krakauer 45
3 On Depending on Fish for a Living, and Other Difficulties of Living Sustainably Hanna Kokko Katja Heubel 75
4 Life in Interesting Times: Cooperation and Collective Action in the Holocene Kim Sterelny 89
5 The Birth of Hierarchy Paul Seabright 109
6 Territoriality and Loss Aversion: The Evolutionary Roots of Property Rights Herbert Gintis 117
7 Cooperation and Biological Markets: The Power of Partner Choice Ronald Noë Bernhard Voelkl 131
8 False Advertising in Biological Markets: Partner Choice and the Problem of Reliability Ben Fraser 153
9 MHC-Mediated Benefits of Trade: A Biomolecular Approach to Cooperation in the Marketplace Haim Ofek 175
10 What We Don't Know about the Evolution of Cooperation in Animals Deborah M. Gordon 195
11 Task Partitioning: Is It a Useful Concept? Adam G. Hart 203
12 Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Toward a Richer Conceptual Framework Andrew Cockburn 223
II Agents and Mechanisms 247
13 Why the Proximate-Ultimate Distinction Is Misleading, and Why It Matters for Understanding the Evolution of Cooperation Brett Calcott 249
14 Emergence of a Signaling Network with Probe and Adjust Brian Skyrms Simon M. Huttegger 265
15 Bacterial Social Life: Information Processing Characteristics and Cooperation Coevolve Livio Riboli-Sasco François Taddei Sam Brown 275
16 Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission Nicholas Shea 289
17 What Can Imitation Do for Cooperation? Cecilia Heyes 313
18 The Role of Learning in Punishment, Prosociality, and Human Uniqueness Fiery Cushman 333
19 Our Pigheaded Core: How We Became Smarter to Be Influenced by Other People Hugo Mercier 373
20 Altruistic Behaviors from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective Felix Warneken 399
21 Culture-Gene Coevolution, Large-Scale Cooperation, and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology Maciek Chudek Wanying Zhao Joseph Henrich 425
22 Suicide Bombers, Weddings, and Prison Tattoos: An Evolutionary Perspective on Subjective Commitment and Objective Commitment Daniel M. T. Fessler Katinka Quintelier 459
23 Communicative Functions of Shame and Guilt June P. Tangney Jeffrey Stuewig Elizabeth T. Malouf Kerstin Youman 485
24 Moral Disgust and the Tribal Instincts Hypothesis Daniel R. Kelly 503
25 Evolution, Motivation, and Moral Beliefs Matteo Mameli 525
26 The Many Moral Nativisms Richard Joyce 549
Contributors 573
Index 575