Ratchets and Domains of Social Evolution
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Jacobus J. (Koos) Boomsma
Institution
University of Copenhagen
Beløb
DKK 1,093,981
År
2019
Bevillingstype
Strategic Grants
Hvad?
My project is about completing a monograph that will likely have the same title as this project. The book will explore the extent to which the major evolutionary transitions in life's organizational complexity can be interpreted and explained by the 'gene's eye view of evolution that is also known as inclusive fitness theory.
Hvorfor?
My book aims to unify conceptual evolutionary theory by highlighting that life's truly innovative changes represented fundamental discontinuities and have not arisen as gradual emergent properties. It will include a critique of the continuum idea of all social life that was introduced with sociobiology and will therefore also be relevant for a readership beyond biologists.
Hvordan?
My research includes library work, the design of integrative diagrams and writing.