Synergistic Selection: How Cooperation Has Shaped Evolution and the Rise of Humankind (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789813230934)

'Nothing about the evolution of biological complexity makes sense except in the light of synergy.' Peter Corning's new book is being hailed as a major contribution to what is perhaps the greatest shift in our understanding of evolution since The Origin of Species. It's a tour de force that takes us on a synergy-guided tour of the history of life. As Corning puts it, 'life on Earth has been a synergistic phenomenon from the get go.' Corning also shows how synergy has been a key to human evolution, including the rise of complex modern societies. 'Cooperation may have been the vehicle, but synergy was the driver.' As we now face a tipping point and another major transition in evolution, Corning offers us a synergy-based road-map to the future. 'One of the great take-home lessons from the epic of evolution is that cooperation produces synergy, and synergy is the way forward. The arc of evolution bends toward synergy.'Related Link(s)

Author: Peter A. Corning
ISBN-10: 9813230932
ISBN-13: 9789813230934
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 02/09/2018
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d