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Domains and major transitions of social evolution

  1. Title statementDomains and major transitions of social evolution / Jacobus J. Boomsma
    Personal name Boomsma, Jacobus Jan, 1951- (author)
    Edition statementimpression: 1
    PublicationOxford : University Press, [2022]
    Phys.des.xviii, 296 stran : ilustrace (některé barevné), grafy
    ISBN978-0-19-874618-8 (brožováno)
    NoteRok vydání v knize neuveden, převzato z ÖBV
    Internal Bibliographies/Indexes NoteObsahuje bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík
    Subj. Headings evoluce (biologie) evolution (biology) * sociální evoluce social evolution
    Form, Genre monografie monographs
    Conspect575 - Obecná genetika. Obecná cytogenetika. Evoluce
    UDC 575.8 , 316.423.2 , (048.8)
    CountryVelká Británie
    Languageangličtina
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    Evolutionary change is usually incremental and continuous, but some increases in organizational complexity have been radical and divisive. Evolutionary biologists, who refer to such events as "major transitions," have not always appreciated that these advances were novel forms of pairwise commitment that subjugated previously independent agents. Inclusive fitness theory convincingly explains cooperation and conflict in societies of animals and free-living cells, but to deserve its eminent status it should also capture how major transitions originated: from prokaryote cells to eukaryote cells, via differentiated multicellularity, to colonies with specialized queen and worker castes. As yet, no attempt has been made to apply inclusive fitness principles to the origins of these events. Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution develops the idea that major evolutionary transitions involved new levels of informational closure that moved beyond looser partnerships. Early neo-Darwinians understood this principle, but later social gradient thinking obscured the discontinuity of life's fundamental organizational transitions. The author argues that the major transitions required maximal kinship in simple ancestors-not conflict reduction in already elaborate societies. Reviewing more than a century of literature, he makes testable predictions, proposing that open societies and closed organisms require very different inclusive fitness explanations. It appears that only human ancestors lived in societies that were already complex before our major cultural transition occurred. We should therefore not impose the trajectory of our own social history on the rest of nature. This thought-provoking text is suitable for graduate-level students taking courses in evolutionary biology, behavioral ecology, organismal developmental biology, and evolutionary genetics, as well as professional researchers in these fields.It will also appeal to a broader, interdisciplinary audience, including the social sciences and humanities.

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