This is a masterly theoretical treatment of one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. Steven Frank
From mitochondria to meerkats, the natural world is full of spectacular examples of social behaviour. In the early 1960s Bill Hamilton changed the way we think
Historical Materialism and Social Evolution brings together a collection of essays which investigate the relationship between Marxist thought and Darwin's theor
The central topic of this book is the mathematical analysis of social systems, understood in the following rather classical way: social systems consist of socia
This multi-disciplinary collection blends broad overviews and case studies as well as different theoretical perspectives in a critique of the relationship betwe