The Calculus of Selfishness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Calculus of Selfishness write by Karl Sigmund. This book was released on 2016-05-31. The Calculus of Selfishness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume looks at social dilemmas where cooperative motivations are subverted and self-interest becomes self-defeating. Sigmund, a pioneer in evolutionary game theory, uses simple and well-known game theory models to examine the foundations of collective action and the effects of reciprocity and reputation.
The Selfish Gene
The Selfish Gene - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Selfish Gene write by Richard Dawkins. This book was released on 1989. The Selfish Gene available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic and selfish behaviour; the genetical definition of selfish interest; the evolution of aggressive behaviour; kinshiptheory; sex ratio theory; reciprocal altruism; deceit; and the natural selection of sex differences. 'Should be read, can be read by almost anyone. It describes with great skill a new face of the theory of evolution.' W.D. Hamilton, Science
Science
Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Science write by John Michels (Journalist). This book was released on 2010. Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Evolutionary Dynamics
Evolutionary Dynamics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Evolutionary Dynamics write by Martin A. Nowak. This book was released on 2006-09-29. Evolutionary Dynamics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time of unprecedented expansion in the life sciences, evolution is the one theory that transcends all of biology. Any observation of a living system must ultimately be interpreted in the context of its evolution. Evolutionary change is the consequence of mutation and natural selection, which are two concepts that can be described by mathematical equations. Evolutionary Dynamics is concerned with these equations of life. In this book, Martin A. Nowak draws on the languages of biology and mathematics to outline the mathematical principles according to which life evolves. His work introduces readers to the powerful yet simple laws that govern the evolution of living systems, no matter how complicated they might seem. Evolution has become a mathematical theory, Nowak suggests, and any idea of an evolutionary process or mechanism should be studied in the context of the mathematical equations of evolutionary dynamics. His book presents a range of analytical tools that can be used to this end: fitness landscapes, mutation matrices, genomic sequence space, random drift, quasispecies, replicators, the Prisoner’s Dilemma, games in finite and infinite populations, evolutionary graph theory, games on grids, evolutionary kaleidoscopes, fractals, and spatial chaos. Nowak then shows how evolutionary dynamics applies to critical real-world problems, including the progression of viral diseases such as AIDS, the virulence of infectious agents, the unpredictable mutations that lead to cancer, the evolution of altruism, and even the evolution of human language. His book makes a clear and compelling case for understanding every living system—and everything that arises as a consequence of living systems—in terms of evolutionary dynamics.
Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality
Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality write by Howard Margolis. This book was released on 1984-10-15. Selfishness, Altruism, and Rationality available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why do we volunteer time? Why do we contribute money? Why, even, do we vote, if the effect of a single vote is negligible? Rationality-based microeconomic models are hard-pressed to explain such social behavior, but Howard Margolis proposes a solution. He suggests that within each person there are two selves, one selfish and the other group-oriented, and that the individual follows a Darwinian rule for allocating resources between those two selves. "Howard Margolis's intriguing ideas . . . provide an alternative to the crude models of rational choice that have dominated economics and political science for too long."—Times Literary Supplement
