Synergistic Selection

How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution and the Rise of Humankind

Nonfiction, Science & Nature, Science, Biological Sciences, Evolution
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Author: Peter Corning ISBN: 9789813230958
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company Publication: December 28, 2017
Imprint: WSPC Language: English
Author: Peter Corning
ISBN: 9789813230958
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Publication: December 28, 2017
Imprint: WSPC
Language: English

"Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy." Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that takes us on a synergy-guided tour of the history of life. As Corning puts it, "life on Earth has been a synergistic phenomenon from the get go." Corning also shows how synergy has been a key to human evolution, including the rise of complex modern societies. "Cooperation may have been the vehicle, but synergy was the driver." As we now face a tipping point and another major transition in evolution, Corning offers us a synergy-based road-map to the future. "One of the great take-home lessons from the epic of evolution is that cooperation produces synergy, and synergy is the way forward. The arc of evolution bends toward synergy."

Contents:

  • Explaining Complexity
  • A New View of Evolution
  • How Cooperation Trumps Competition
  • Evolution as a "Combination of Labor"
  • A Tale of Two Theories
  • The Major Transitions in Evolution
  • The Self-Made Man I: Australopithecine Entrepreneurs
  • The Self-Made Man II: From erectus to Homo sapiens
  • The Rise of Complex Societies
  • The Next Major Transition

Readership: Undergraduate, graduate students and the general public interested in general science, general life sciences, evolutionary biology, human biology/anthropology/primatology, and public policy.
Key Features:

  • It is an in-depth treatment of a still little-known Darwinian theory of complexity in living systems that is focused on the causal role of synergy in evolution
  • The book also highlights the important causal role of behavior in evolution, and it offers a new theory about human evolution called the Self-Made Man Scenario
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"Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy." Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that takes us on a synergy-guided tour of the history of life. As Corning puts it, "life on Earth has been a synergistic phenomenon from the get go." Corning also shows how synergy has been a key to human evolution, including the rise of complex modern societies. "Cooperation may have been the vehicle, but synergy was the driver." As we now face a tipping point and another major transition in evolution, Corning offers us a synergy-based road-map to the future. "One of the great take-home lessons from the epic of evolution is that cooperation produces synergy, and synergy is the way forward. The arc of evolution bends toward synergy."

Contents:

Readership: Undergraduate, graduate students and the general public interested in general science, general life sciences, evolutionary biology, human biology/anthropology/primatology, and public policy.
Key Features:

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