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Biological emergences : evolution by natural experiment / / Robert G.B. Reid
| Biological emergences : evolution by natural experiment / / Robert G.B. Reid |
| Autore | Reid Robert G. B. <1939-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | xv, 517 p |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Collana | The Vienna series in theoretical biology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Variation (Biology) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-26442-0
1-282-09829-2 0-262-28226-7 9786612098291 1-4294-6095-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777782603321 |
Reid Robert G. B. <1939->
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Convergent evolution : limited forms most beautiful / / George R. McGhee Jr
| Convergent evolution : limited forms most beautiful / / George R. McGhee Jr |
| Autore | McGhee George R |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 322 p.) : ill |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Collana | Vienna series in theoretical biology |
| Soggetto topico | Convergence (Biology) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
1-283-30289-6
9786613302892 0-262-29887-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | What is convergent evolution? -- Convergent animals -- Convergent plants --Convergent ecosystems -- Convergent molecules -- Convergent minds -- Functional and developmental constraint in convergent evolution -- Philosophical implications of convergent evolution -- Appendix: A phylogenetic classification of life. |
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McGhee George R
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| Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, ©2011 | ||
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Cultural evolution : society, technology, language, and religion / / edited by Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen
| Cultural evolution : society, technology, language, and religion / / edited by Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA : , : MIT Press, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (499 p.) |
| Disciplina | 303.4 |
| Collana | Strungmann forum reports |
| Soggetto topico |
Social evolution
Technological innovations - Social aspects Human evolution - Religious aspects |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution |
| ISBN | 0-262-31829-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | List of contributors -- Introduction / Peter J. Richerson and Morten H. Christiansen -- Cultural evolution of the structure of human groups -- Zoon politicon : the evolutionary roots of human sociopolitical -- Systems / Herbert Gintis and Carel van Schaik -- Human cooperation among kin and close associates may require / Sarah Mathew, Robert Boyd, and Matthijs Van Veelen -- The puzzle of human ultrasociality : how did large-scale complex societies evolve? / Peter Turchin -- Like me : a homophily-based account of human culture / Daniel Haun and Harriet Over -- Cultural evolution of the structure of human groups / Fiona M. Jordan, Rapporteur -- Carel van schaik, pieter fransis, herbert gintis, daniel haun, daniel j. hruschka, marco a. janssen, james a. kitts, laurent lehmann, sarah mathew, peter j. richerson, peter turchin, and polly wiessner -- The cultural evolution of technology and science -- The cultural evolution of technology : facts and theories / Robert Boyd, Peter Richerson, and Joseph Henrich -- Long-term trajectories of technological change / Stephen Shennan -- Neuroscience of technology / Dietrich Stout -- Scientific method as cultural innovation / Robert N. McCauley -- The cultural evolution of technology and science / Alex Mesoudi, Rapporteur, Kevin N. Laland, Robert Boyd, Briggs Buchanan, Emma Flynn, Robert N. McCauley, Jurgen Renn, Victoria Reyes-Garc©-a, Stephen Shennan, Dietrich Stout, and Claudio Tennie -- Cultural evolution of language -- The interplay of genetic and cultural factors in ongoing language evolution / Stephen C. Levinson and Dan Dediu -- Cultural evolution and language diversity / Nicholas Evans -- Language acquisition as a cultural process / Elena Lieven -- Phylogenetic models of language change: three new questions / Russell D. Gray, Simon J. Greenhill, and Quentin D. Atkinson -- Cultural evolution of language / Michael Cysouw, Rapporteur, Stephen C. Levinson, Andrea Baronchelli, Morten H. Christiansen, William Croft, Dan Dediu -- Nicholas evans, simon garrod, russell gray, anne kandler, and elena lieven -- The cultural evolution of religion -- The evolution of prosocial religions / Edward Slingerland, Joseph Henrich, and Ara Norenzayan -- Rethinking proximate causation and development in religious / Evolution -- Harvey whitehouse -- Religious prosociality: a synthesis -- Ara norenzayan, joseph henrich, and edward slingerland -- The cultural evolution of religion -- Bibliography -- Subject index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790791503321 |
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Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / / edited by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens
| Evolution and the mechanisms of decision making / / edited by Peter Hammerstein and Jeffrey R. Stevens |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, ©2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (447 p.) |
| Disciplina | 153.8/3 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
HammersteinPeter <1949->
StevensJeffrey R. <1974-> |
| Collana | Strüngmann forum reports |
| Soggetto topico |
Decision making
Cognition |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution ECONOMICS/General |
| ISBN |
1-283-87014-2
0-262-30602-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""11 Modularity and Decision Making""""12 Robustness in a Variable Environment""; ""Variation in Decision Making""; ""13 Biological Analogs of Personality""; ""14 Sources of Variation within the Individual""; ""15 Variation in Decision Making""; ""Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition""; ""16 The Cognitive Underpinnings of Social Behavior""; ""17 Early Social Cognition: How Psychological Mechanisms Can Inform Models of Decision Making""; ""18 Who Cares? Other-Regarding Concerns� Decisions with Feeling""; ""19 Learning, Cognitive Limitations, and the Modeling of Social Behavior""
""20 Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Cognition""""Bibliography""; ""Subject Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779367503321 |
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Evolution in four dimensions : genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic variation in the history of life / / Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb ; with illustrations by Anna Zeligowski
| Evolution in four dimensions : genetic, epigenetic, behavioral, and symbolic variation in the history of life / / Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb ; with illustrations by Anna Zeligowski |
| Autore | Jablonka Eva |
| Edizione | [Revised edition.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : A Bradford Book, , [2014] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (577 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8/2 |
| Collana | Life and mind philosophical issues in biology and psychology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Biology - Philosophy |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-32269-2
0-262-32267-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | I. The First Dimension. 1. The transformations of Darwinism ; 2. From genes to characters ; 3. Genetic variation: blind, directed, interpretive? -- II. Three more dimensions. 4. The epigenetic inheritance systems ; 5. The behavioral inheritance systems ; 6. The symbolic inheritance system ; Between the acts: an interim summary -- III. Putting Humpty Dumpty together again. 7. Interacting dimensions: genes and epigenetic systems ; 8. Genes and behavior, genes and language ; 9. Lamarckism evolving: the evolution of the educated guess ; 10. A last dialogue -- IV. After seven years. 11. Developing evolution. |
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Jablonka Eva
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| Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : A Bradford Book, , [2014] | ||
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Evolution of communicative flexibility : complexity, creativity, and adaptability in human and animal communication / / edited by D Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel
| Evolution of communicative flexibility : complexity, creativity, and adaptability in human and animal communication / / edited by D Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (367 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302.2 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
OllerD. Kimbrough
GriebelUlrike |
| Collana | The Vienna series in theoretical biology |
| Soggetto topico |
Communication
Animal communication Language and languages - Origin Human evolution |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution |
| ISBN |
0-262-30991-2
0-262-28102-3 1-4356-7721-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Reference; I INTRODUCTION; 1 Signal and Functional Flexibility in the Emergence of Communication Systems: The Editors' Introduction; II CROSS-SPECIES PERSPECTIVES ON FORCES AND PATTERNS OF FLEXIBILITY IN COMMUNICATION; 2 Evolutionary Forces Favoring Communicative Flexibility; 3 Vocal Learning in Mammals with Special Emphasis on Pinnipeds; 4 Contextually Flexible Communication in Nonhuman Primates; 5 Constraints in Primate Vocal Production; 6 Contextual Sensitivity and Bird Song: A Basis for Social Life
III THE ROLE OF FLEXIBILITY AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPLEXITY IN THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE7 Contextual Flexibility in Infant Vocal Development and the Earliest Stepsin the Evolution of Language; 8 Scaffolds for Babbling: Innateness and Learning in the Emergence of Contexually Flexible Vocal Production in Human Infants; 9 Cognitive Precursors to Language; 10 Language and Niche Construction; IV UNDERPINNINGS OF COMMUNICATIVE CONTROL: FOUNDATIONS FOR FLEXIBLE COMMUNICATION; 11 How Apes Use Gestures: The Issue of Flexibility 12 The Role of Play in the Evolution and Ontogeny of Contextually Flexible CommunicationV MODELING OF THE EMERGENCE OF COMPLEXITY AND FLEXIBILITY IN COMMUNICATION; 13 Detection and Estimation of Complexity and Contextual Flexibility in Nonhuman Animal Communication; 14 The Evolution of Flexibility in Bird Song; 15 Development and Evolution of Speech Sound Categories: Principles and Models; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782115303321 |
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The evolved apprentice : how evolution made humans unique / / Kim Sterelny
| The evolved apprentice : how evolution made humans unique / / Kim Sterelny |
| Autore | Sterelny Kim |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. : , : The MIT Press, , [2012] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (259 p.) |
| Disciplina | 155.7 |
| Collana | The Jean Nicod lectures |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolutionary psychology
Cooperation |
| Soggetto non controllato |
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution PHILOSOPHY/General |
| ISBN |
0-262-30049-4
0-262-30281-0 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Series Foreword; Preface; Chapter 1. The Challenge of Novelty; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Social Intelligence Hypothesis; 1.3 Cooperative Foraging; 1.4 Cooperative Foraging and Knowledge Accumulation; 1.5 Life in a Changing World; Chapter 2. Accumulating Cognitive Capital; 2.1 A Lineage Explanation of Social Learning; 2.2 Feedback Loops; 2.3 The Apprentice Learning Model; Chapter 3. Adapted Individuals, Adapted Environments; 3.1 Behavioral Modernity; 3.2 The Symbolic Species; 3.3 Public Symbols and Social Worlds; 3.4 Preserving and Expanding Information
3.5 Niche Construction and Neanderthal Extinction Chapter 4. The Human Cooperation Syndrome; 4.1 Triggering Cooperation; 4.2 A Cooperation Complex; 4.3 The Grandmother Hypothesis; 4.4 Foragers: Ancient and Modern; 4.5 Hunting: Provisioning or Signaling?; Chapter 5. Costs and Commitments; 5.1 Free Riders; 5.2 Control and Commitment; 5.3 Commitment Mechanisms; 5.4 Signals, Investments, and Interventions; 5.5 Hunting and Commitment; 5.6 Commitment through Investment; 5.7 Primitive Trust; Chapter 6. Signals, Cooperation, and Learning; 6.1 Sperber's Dilemma; 6.2 Two Faces of Cultural Learning 6.3 Honesty Mechanisms 6.4 The Folk as Educators; Chapter 7. From Skills to Norms; 7.1 Norms and Communities; 7.2 Moral Nativism; 7.3 Self- Control, Vigilance, and Persuasion; 7.4 Reactive and Reflective Moral Response; 7.5 Moral Apprentices; 7.6 The Biological Preparation of Moral Development; 7.7 The Expansion of Cultural Learning; Chapter 8. Cooperation and Conflict; 8.1 Group Selection; 8.2 Strong Reciprocity and Human Cooperation; 8.3 Children of Strife?; 8.4 The Holocene: A World Queerer Than We Realized?; Notes; References; Index |
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Sterelny Kim
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From groups to individuals : evolution and emerging individuality / / edited by Frédéric Bouchard and Philippe Huneman
| From groups to individuals : evolution and emerging individuality / / edited by Frédéric Bouchard and Philippe Huneman |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : The MIT Press, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina | 570.1 |
| Collana | Vienna series in theoretical biology |
| Soggetto topico |
Biology - Philosophy
Organisms Individuality Group identity Adaptation (Biology) |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General |
| ISBN |
1-299-44321-4
0-262-31344-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Contents; Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I ORGANISMS AND INDIVIDUALITY; 1 Darwinian Individuals; 2 Defining the Individual; 3 Species and Organisms: What Are the Problems?; 4 Immunity and the Emergence of Individuality; II ADAPTATION AND COMPLEX INDIVIDUALS; 5 Adaptation of Individuals and Groups; 6 The Unit of Adaptation, the Emergence of Individuality, and the Loss of Evolutionary Sovereignty; 7 Adaptations in Transitions: How to Make Sense of Adaptation When Beneficiaries Emerge Simultaneously with Benefits?; III GROUPS AND COLLECTIVES AS INDIVIDUALS
8 Groups, Individuals, and the Emergence of Sociality: The Case of Division of Labor9 Colonies Are Individuals: Revisiting the Superorganism Revival; 10 Superorganisms and Superindividuality: The Emergence of Individuality in a Social Insect Assemblage; 11 What Is a Symbiotic Superindividual and How Do You Measure Its Fitness?; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779402503321 |
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Innovation in cultural systems : contributions from evolutionary anthropology / / edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Stephen J. Shennan
| Innovation in cultural systems : contributions from evolutionary anthropology / / edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Stephen J. Shennan |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina | 599.9 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
O'BrienMichael J <1950-> (Michael John)
ShennanStephen |
| Collana | Vienna series in theoretical biology |
| Soggetto topico |
Physical anthropology
Human evolution Social evolution Human beings - Origin Technological innovations |
| Soggetto non controllato |
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/General
BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution |
| ISBN |
0-262-29391-9
1-282-69469-3 9786612694691 0-262-25910-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Series Foreword; Preface and Acknowledgments; I Introduction; 1 Issues in Anthropological Studies of Innovation; II The Biological Substrate; 2 Innovation and Invention from a Logical Point of View; 3 Comparative Perspectives on Human Innovation; 4 Organismal Innovation; 5 Innovation, Replicative Behavior, and Evolvability; 6 Innovation from EvoDevo to Human Culture; III Cultural Inheritance; 7 The Evolution of Innovation-Enhancing Institutions; 8 Fashion versus Reason in the Creative Industries; 9 Demography and Variation in the Accumulation of Culturally Inherited Skills
10 Cultural Traditions and the Evolutionary Advantages of Noninnovation11 The Experimental Study of Cultural Innovation; 12 Social Learning, Economic Inequality, and Innovation Diffusion; IV Patterns in the Anthropological Record; 13 Technological Innovations and Developmental Trajectories; 14 Can Archaeologists Study Processes of Invention?; 15 War, Women, and Religion; Contributors; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791291103321 |
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The major transitions in evolution revisited / / edited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny
| The major transitions in evolution revisited / / edited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Disciplina | 576.8 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
CalcottBrett
SterelnyKim SzathmáryEörs |
| Collana | Vienna series in theoretical biology |
| Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology)
Biodiversity Genetic transformation Population genetics |
| Soggetto non controllato | BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES/Evolution |
| ISBN |
1-283-11918-8
9786613119186 0-262-29570-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction : a dynamic view of evolution / Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny -- The miscellaneous transitions in evolution / Daniel W. McShea and Carl Simpson -- Alternative patterns of explanation for major transitions / Brett Calcott -- Biological ontogeny and hierarchical organization : a defense of rank freedom / Samir Okasha -- Darwinian populations and transitions in individuality / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Evolvability reconsidered / Kim Sterelny -- To be or not to be : where is self-preservation in evolutionary theory? / Pamela Lyon -- The evolution of restraint in structured populations : setting the stage for an egalitarian major transition / Benjamin Kerr and Joshua Nahum -- Conflicts among levels of selection as fuel for the evolution of individuality / Paul B. Rainey and Benjamin Kerr -- Evolutionary transitions in individuality : multicellularity and sex / Richard E. Michod -- How many levels are there? : how insights from evolutionary transitions in individuality help measure the hierarchical complexity of life / Carl Simpson -- Plant individuality and multilevel selection theory / Ellen Clarke -- Phylogenetic, functional, and geological perspectives on complex multicellularity / Andrew H. Knoll and David Hewitt -- The small picture approach to the big picture : using DNA sequences to investigate the diversification of animal body plans / Lindell Bromham -- Concluding remarks / Eörs Szathmáry and Chrisantha Fernando. |
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