For all the selfishness of genes they team up to survive Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news it s hard to think of ourselves as team players But cooperation Jonathan Silvertown argues is a fundamental part of our make up and deeply woven into the whole four billion year history of life Starting with human society Silvertown digs deeper to show how cooperation is key to the cells forming our organs to symbiosis between organisms to genes that band together to the dawn of life itself Cooperation has enabled life to thrive and become complex Without it life would never have begun
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Editorial: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198876397
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 256
Encuadernación: Tapa dura
Fecha de lanzamiento: 11/04/2024
Año de edición: 2024
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Escrito por Jonathan Silvertown
Jonathan Silvertown es profesor de Ecología evolutiva en el Institute of Evolutionary Biology de la Universidad de Edimburgo, Escocia. Es autor de numerosos libros sobre ecología y evolución, entre ellos 99% Ape, Demons in Eden, An Orchard Invisible y The Long and the Short of it. En 2011 ganó el British Ecological Society’s Ecological Engagement Award.