The Essential Tension Competition, Cooperation and Multilevel Selection in Evolution /

• Main Author: Bahar, Sonya (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: The Frontiers Collection,
• Subjects: Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Evolutionary biology.; Physics.; Biophysics.; Biological physics.; Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building.; Evolutionary Biology.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics.

'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 emer...