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Cooperation and conflict in general evolutionary processes

Title: Cooperation and conflict in general evolutionary processes / edited by John L. Casti, Anders Karlqvist.
Publication: New York : Wiley, [1995], ©1995.

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xii, 435 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

In May 1992, within the Arctic Circle and under the midnight sun, a small group of researchers from diverse disciplines met to study one of the most fundamental questions of existence: What are the roles of conflict and cooperation in the evolution of life? The answers that came - from such fields as physics, literature, biology, economics, linguistics, and computer science - shed new light on this very old question.
Sponsored by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination of Research, these internationally renowned scholars discussed and debated the complementary effects of individual self-interest and collective group interests. The twelve chapters in this volume, representing a wide range of perspectives, are the fruit of this meeting.
They illustrate the dynamics of evolution and, contrary to many traditional ideas of nature, make a compelling case for the crucial role of cooperation in successful evolutionary adaptation. The fascination of this volume lies in watching the push and pull of conflict and cooperation play out in such areas as economic organization, computer science, the development of urban structures, the evolution of languages, and molecular formation in the primeval environment.
Theoretical and evolutionary biologists, system theorists, economists, computer scientists, and mathematical modelers will find Cooperation and Conflict in General Evolutionary Processes a provocative and stimulating book that may open new perspectives on their own work.

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"A Wiley-Interscience publication."
Papers from a workshop held in May 1992 in Abisko, Sweden, organized by the Swedish Council for Planning and Coordination.

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Contents

Ch. 1. Urban Systems and Evolution / W. Brian Arthur -- Ch. 2. Modeling Errors and Parasites in the Evolution of Primitive Life: Possibilities of Spatial Self-Structuring / Clas Blomberg and Mikael Cronhjort -- Ch. 3. Cooperation: The Ghost in the Machinery of Evolution / John L. Casti -- Ch. 4. Randomness in Arithmetic and the Decline and Fall of Reductionism in Pure Mathematics / Gregory J. Chaitin -- Ch. 5. Narratives of Evolution and the Evolution of Narratives / N. Katherine Hayles -- Ch. 6. Biologically Bound Behavior, Free Will, and the Evolution of Humans / Philip Lieberman -- Ch. 7. A Hierarchy of Complex Behaviors in Microbiological Systems / Erik Mosekilde, Heidi Stranddorf, Jesper Skovhus Thomsen and Gerold Baier -- Ch. 8. Chaotic Dynamics of Linguistic-Like Processes at the Syntactic and Semantic Levels: In Pursuit of a Multifractal Attractor / John S. Nicolis and Anastassis A. Katsikas -- Ch. 9. Cooperation and Chimera / Robert Rosen.
Ch. 10. Minimal Properties for Evolutionary Optimization / Peter Schuster -- Ch. 11. A Perception Machine Built of Many Cooperating Agents / Erik Skarman -- Ch. 12. Language, Evolution, and the Theory of Games / Karl Warneyrd.

ISBN

0471594873 (cloth)

LCCN

94014384

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