Research Catalog

Title

Cooperation and its evolution / edited by Kim Sterelny ... [et al.].

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Sterelny, Kim.

Description

vii, 577 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology

Uniform Title

Life and mind.

Subjects

• Cooperativeness
• Cooperation
• Evolution (Biology) > Philosophy
• Evolutionary psychology

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The evolution of individualistic norms / Don Ross -- Timescales, symmetry, and uncertainty reduction in the origins of hierarchy in biological systems / Jessica C. Flack ... [et al.] -- On depending on fish for a living, and other difficulties of living sustainably / Hanna Kokko and Katja Heubel -- Life in interesting times : cooperation and collective action in the Holocene / Kim Sterelny -- The birth of hierarchy / Paul Seabright -- Territoriality and loss aversion : the evolutionary roots of property rights / Herbert Gintis -- Cooperation and biological markets : the power of partner choice / Ronald Noë and Bernhard Voekl -- False advertising in biological markets : partner choice and the problem of reliability / Ben Fraser -- MHC-mediated benefits of trade : a biomolecular approach to cooperation in the marketplace / Haim Ofek -- What we don't know about the evolution of cooperation in animals / Deborah M. gordon -- Task partitioning : is it a useful concept? / Adam G. Hart -- Cooperative breeding in birds : toward a richer conceptual framework / Andrew Cockburn -- Why the proximate-ultimate distinction is misleading, and why it matters for understanding the evolution of cooperation / Brett Calcott -- Emergence of a signaling network with probe and adjust / Brian Skyrms and Simon M. Huttegger -- Bacterial social life : information processing characteristics and cooperation coevolve / Livio Riboli Sasco, François Taddei, and Sam Brown -- Two modes of transgenerational information transmission / Nicholas Shea -- What can imitation do for cooperation? / Cecilia Heyes -- The role of learning in punishment, prosociality, and human uniqueness / Fiery Cushman -- Our pigheaded core : how we became smarter to be influenced by other people / Hugo Mercier -- Altruistic behaviors from a developmental and comparative perspective / Felix Warneken -- Culture-gene evolution, large-scale cooperation, and the shaping of human social psychology / Maciek Chudek, Wanying Zhao, and Joseph Henrich -- Suicide bombers, weddings, and prison tattoos : an evolutionary perspective on subjective commitment and objective commitment / Daniel M.T. Fessler and Katinka Quintelier -- Communicative functions of shame and guilt / June P. Tangney ... [et al.] -- Moral disgust and the tribal instincts hypothesis / Daniel R. Kelly -- Evolution, motivation, and moral beliefs / Matteo Mameli -- The many moral nativisms / Richard Joyce.

Call Number

JFE 13-8568

ISBN

• 9780262018531 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0262018535 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

2012025348

OCLC

796355120

Title

Cooperation and its evolution / edited by Kim Sterelny ... [et al.].

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2013.

Series

Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology

Life and mind.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/cooperation-its-evolution

Added Author

Sterelny, Kim.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-8568