The philosophy of social evolution /
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| Author / Creator: | Birch, Jonathan, author. |
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Imprint: | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017. ©2017 |
| Description: | viii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11374089 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Boxes
- Jumping into the River ...
- Part I. Foundations
- 1. Conceptualizing Social Behaviour
- 1.1. Some Examples
- 1.2. Hamilton's Four-Part Schema
- 1.3. The Importance of Recent Selection History
- 1.4. Objections to Historical Definitions
- 1.5. Actions and Strategies
- 1.6. The Collaborative Context
- 1.7. Summary of Chapter 1
- 2. Hamilton's Rule as an Organizing Framework
- 2.1. Queller's 'General Model' (HRG)
- 2.2. Cost, Benefit, and Relatedness as Population Statistics
- 2.3. The Organizing Role of HRG
- 2.4. Indirect Fitness Explanations
- 2.5. Direct Fitness Explanations
- 2.6. Hybrid and Partially Non-Selective Explanations
- 2.7. Summary of Chapter 2
- 3. The Rule under Attack: Tautology, Prediction, and Causality
- 3.1. The 'Tautology Problem' Redux
- 3.2. The Predictive Limitations of HRG
- 3.3. The Causal Interpretation of Cost and Benefit
- 3.4. Coarser- and Finer-Grained Partitions of Change
- 3.5. The Multi-Level Price Equation
- 3.6. The Lehmann-Keller Framework
- 3.7. Summary of Chapter 3
- 4. Kin Selection and Group Selection
- 4.1. Equivalence Results and Their Limitations
- 4.2. Individual- and Population-Centred Approaches
- 4.3. Two Influences: Hamilton and Godfrey-Smith
- 4.4. K and G
- 4.5. The rb ≠ 0 Requirement
- 4.6. Levels of Organization
- 4.7. The Key Substantive Questions
- 4.8. Summary of Chapter 4
- 5. Two Conceptions of Social Fitness
- 5.1. The Conceptual Contrast
- 5.2. Hamilton's Argument Reconsidered
- 5.3. Hamilton's Assumptions: Actor's Control and Additivity
- 5.4. Weak Selection and Fisher's Microscope
- 5.5. Inclusive Fitness as a Criterion for Improvement
- 5.6. Should We Expect Inclusive Fitness to be Optimized?
- 5.7. Summary of Chapter 5
- Part II. Extensions
- 6. Gene Mobility and the Concept of Relatedness
- 6.1. Sociality in the Microbial World
- 6.2. Gene Mobility as a Source of Genetic Similarity
- 6.3. A Diachronic Conception of Relatedness
- 6.4. Implications for Empirical Research
- 6.5. 'But is it Still Kin Selection?'
- 6.6. Gene Mobility as a Source of Intragenomic Conflict
- 6.7. Summary of Chapter 6
- 7. The Multicellular Organism as a Social Phenomenon
- 7.1. The Return of the 'Cell State'
- 7.2. Resistance to the Social Perspective
- 7.3. Hamilton's Hypothesis
- 7.4. The Economy of the Cell State: Redundancy, Market Size, and Specialization
- 7.5. Limits to the Number of Cell Types
- 7.6. Other Major Transitions
- 7.7. Summary of Chapter 7
- 8. Cultural Relatedness and Human Social Evolution
- 8.1. Broad-Scope Prosocial Preferences
- 8.2. Cultural Variants
- 8.3. Two Types of Cultural Selection
- 8.4. A Cultural Analogue of Hamilton's Rule
- 8.5. The Cultural Relatedness Hypothesis
- 8.6. Two Objections
- 8.7. Summary of Chapter 8
- ... and Climbing Out Again
- Appendix: The Price Equation
- Bibliography
- Index
