Монография
Academic Press, 1980 - Всего страниц: 459Summary
The Genetics of Altruism covers the primary findings on social evolution, social trait, and altruism from a population genetics standpoint to establish a system of genetic boxes. It presents an evolutionary question with two faces: Why are there so many social species? Why, in all the diversity of the animal kingdom, are the social species so few?
To address the evolutionary question, this book focuses on recognition of the fact that on an evolutionary time, scale genetics must underlie all changes in the capacity for social structure and other aspects of organic evolution. It presents comparative analyses framed in mathematical terms; mathematical concepts as a means of getting outside human, perhaps more generally primate and carnivore; frames of reference; and alternative network combinatorics as a natural basis for comparing social structures that are phylogenetically remote. It also discusses the comparative biology of social behavior on a purely descriptive basis through the social and evolutionary structures emergent. The book concludes by discussing major evolutionary pathways, various kinds of preadaptedness for sociality, and the use of cascade principle to suggest ways in which human evolution may have been a special case.
This book is a valuable resource for biologists, social scientists, researchers, students, and all those who want to broaden their knowledge in the field of social behavior and altruism.The evolutionary roots of sociality; The theory of reciprocity selection; The theory of kin selection; The theory of group selection; Mathematical models for a simple cooperative trait.
The Evolutionary Roots of Sociality
The Theory of Reciprocity Selection
Mathematical Models for a Simple Cooperative Trait
Cascade to Takeover by the Social Trait
Dynamics of the Cascade Using the Two-Island Approximation
The Cascade Continued - Initial Conditions and Global Dinamics
The theory of kin selection
General Models for Sib and Half-Sib Selection
Axiomatization of Sib Selection Theories
Alternative Combinatorial Madels and the Status of the Hamilton Theory
Models of Intergenerational Altruism
The theory of group selection
Analysis of Group Selection in the Levins E=E(x) Formalism
Conclusions
