Oxford University Press, USA
Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life
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- Jonathan Silvertown
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For all the selfishness of genes, they team up to survive. Is the history of life in fact a story of cooperation?
Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation, Jonathan Silvertown argues, is a fundamental part of our make-up, and deeply woven into the whole four-billion-year history of life. Starting with human society, Silvertown digs deeper, to show how cooperation is key to the cells forming our organs, to symbiosis between organisms, to genes that band together, to the dawn of life itself. Cooperation has enabled life to thrive and become complex. Without it, life would never have begun.
Amid the violence and brutality that dominates the news, it's hard to think of ourselves as team players. But cooperation, Jonathan Silvertown argues, is a fundamental part of our make-up, and deeply woven into the whole four-billion-year history of life. Starting with human society, Silvertown digs deeper, to show how cooperation is key to the cells forming our organs, to symbiosis between organisms, to genes that band together, to the dawn of life itself. Cooperation has enabled life to thrive and become complex. Without it, life would never have begun.
Selfish Genes to Social Beings: A Cooperative History of Life
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I joined the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh in October 2014 and before that I was at the Open University. My research specialism is plant population biology, covering a large number of topics. My H-index on Google Scholar is 68.
Affiliations and Awards
- Founding Chair of Trustees and now Trustee of the Ecological Continuity Trust
- On the Editorial Board of the New Naturalist library
- Recipient of the British Ecological Society's Ecological Engagement Award, 2011.
Education
- BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences, University of Sussex (1975)
- D.Phil. University of Sussex (1979)
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