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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Essential Tension
    sub title: Competition, Cooperation and Multilevel Selection in Evolution
  name:
    name part: Bahar, Sonya.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 377 p. 104 illus., 56 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: '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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Sonya Bahar.
  subject:
    topic: Sociophysics
  subject:
    topic: Econophysics
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biophysics
  subject:
    topic: Biological physics
  subject:
    topic: Data-driven Science, Modeling and Theory Building
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics
  classification: QC1-999
  classification: 621
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      title: Springer eBooks
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      title: The Frontiers Collection
  identifier: 9789402410549
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1054-9
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