Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution

ISBN-13: 9780198746171 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 352 str.

KOOS BOOMSMA

Recenzje

This book is valuable for anyone interested in the history of evolutionary thought and theory. It is a must have for anyone for whom kin selection and inclusive fitness maximization is their scientific guiding lodestar. It is also a must have for those for whom kin selection and inclusive fitness maximization is the bane of their existence - to see the best case the other side can muster. Domains and Major Transitions of Social Evolution is a book for the serious evolutionary biologist seeking an intellectual challenge. I found it both enlightening and worthwhile, if not entirely persuasive.

O autorze

Jacobus J. Boomsma is Professor at the University of Copenhagen's Department of Biology, where he is the Director of the Centre for Social Evolution. He is an Elected Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (1998) and was awarded a Knighthood from the Royal Danish Order of Dannebrog (2015). He received the Quadrennial Hamilton Award for outstanding lifetime achievement by the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (2018). His principle research interests include Social Evolution, Conflict/Cooperation, Mating systems, Coevolution, Conservation, Genomics, and Evolutionary Medicine.