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...

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.