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Cooperation and Its Evolution.
Title:
Cooperation and Its Evolution.
Author:
Sterelny, Kim.
ISBN:
9780262313032
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (587 pages)
Series:
Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I Agents and Environments -- 1 The Evolution of Individualistic Norms -- 2 Timescales, Symmetry, and Uncertainty Reduction in the Origins of Hierarchy in Biological Systems -- 3 On Depending on Fish for a Living, and Other Difficulties of Living Sustainably -- 4 Life in Interesting Times: Cooperation and Collective Action in the Holocene -- 5 The Birth of Hierarchy -- 6 Territoriality and Loss Aversion: The Evolutionary Roots of Property Rights -- 7 Cooperation and Biological Markets: The Power of Partner Choice -- 8 False Advertising in Biological Markets: Partner Choice and the Problem of Reliability -- 9 MHC-Mediated Benefits of Trade: A Biomolecular Approach to Cooperation in the Marketplace -- 10 What We Don ' t Know about the Evolution of Cooperation in Animals -- 11 Task Partitioning: Is It a Useful Concept? -- 12 Cooperative Breeding in Birds: Toward a Richer Conceptual Framework -- II Agents and Mechanisms -- 13 Why the Proximate-Ultimate Distinction Is Misleading -- 14 Emergence of a Signaling Network with Probe and Adjust -- 15 Bacterial Social Life: Information Processing Characteristics and Cooperation Coevolve -- 16 Two Modes of Transgenerational Information Transmission -- 17 What Can Imitation Do for Cooperation? -- 18 The Role of Learning in Punishment, Prosociality, and Human Uniqueness -- 19 Our Pigheaded Core: How We Became Smarter to Be Influenced by Other People -- 20 Altruistic Behaviors from a Developmental and Comparative Perspective -- 21 Culture-Gene Coevolution, Large-Scale Cooperation, and the Shaping of Human Social Psychology -- 22 Suicide Bombers, Weddings, and Prison Tattoos -- 23 Communicative Functions of Shame and Guilt -- 24 Moral Disgust and the Tribal Instincts Hypothesis -- 25 Evolution, Motivation, and Moral Beliefs -- 26 The Many Moral Nativisms -- Contributors.

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Abstract:
Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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