The Nature of Consciousness

Piero Scaruffi

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These are excerpts and elaborations from my book "The Nature of Consciousness"

 

14. Altruism: From Endosymbiosis to Sociobiology

  1. Competition vs Cooperation
  2. Kin Selectionism
  3. Selfish Altruism
  4. Group Selectionism
  5. Games
  6. The Neural Correlate of Altruism
  7. The Origin of Sex
  8. Endosymbiosis
  9. The Tree Of Life
  10. Symbiogenesis
  11. Superbeings
  12. Superorganisms
  13. A Viral Past
  14. Gaia
  15. Complexity, Specialization and Cooperation
  16. Synergy
  17. Sex And Death
  18. The Origin of Selection
  19. Gene Selectionism
  20. The Altruistic Gene
  21. Selfish Altruism
  22. Sociobiology
  23. Evolutionary Psychology
  24. The Amoral Animal
  25. The Mind As A Sexual Organ
  26. Sexiness
  27. Cooking
  28. A Woman's World
  29. Human Contradictions
  30. Memes
  31. More Than One Evolution
  32. Cultural Group Selection
  33. Theory of Mind
  34. The Origin of Empathy
  35. The Origin of Evil
  36. The Neurological Alternative to Sociobiology

Further Reading (Click here for reviews of these books)


Axelrod, Robert: THE EVOLUTION OF COOPERATION (1984)
Bateson Gregory: STEPS TO AN ECOLOGY OF MIND (1972)
Blackmore, Susan: THE MEME MACHINE (1999)
Bloom, Howard: THE LUCIFER PRINCIPLE (1995)
Bloom, Paul: Descartes' Baby (2004)
Boyd, Robert and Richerson, Peter: CULTURE AND THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS (1985)
Boyd, Robert & Richerson, Peter: THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF CULTURES (2005)
Brandon, Robert: GENES ORGANISMS POPULATION (1984)
Brandon, Robert: ADAPTATION AND ENVIRONMENT (1990)
Buss, David: THE EVOLUTION OF DESIRE  (1994)
Capra, Fritjof: THE WEB OF LIFE (1996)
Cauvin, Jacques: NAISSANCE DES DIVINITES, NAISSANCE DE L'AGRICULTURE (1994)
Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi & Feldman, Marcus: CULTURAL TRANSMISSION AND EVOLUTION (1981)
Corning, Peter: NATURE'S MAGIC (2003)
Cosmides, Leda & Tooby, John: THE ADAPTED MIND (1992)
Cronin, Helena: THE ANT AND THE PEACOCK (1992)
Darwin, Charles: THE DESCENT OF MAN, AND SELECTION IN RELATION TO SEX (1871)
Dawkins, Richard: THE SELFISH GENE (1976)
Dawkins, Richard: THE BLIND WATCHMAKER (1987)
Dawkins, Richard: RIVER OUT OF EDEN (1995)
Dawkins, Richard: CLIMBING MOUNT IMPROBABLE (1996)
De Waal, Frans: GOOD NATURED : THE ORIGINS OF RIGHT AND WRONG IN HUMANS AND OTHER ANIMALS (1996)
Dennett, Daniel: DARWIN'S DANGEROUS IDEA (1995)
Dobzhansky, Theodosius: MANKING EVOLVING (1962)
Durham, William: COEVOLUTION (1991)
Frisch, Karl von: THE DANCE LANGUAGE AND ORIENTATION OF BEES (1967)
Goertzel, Ben: THE EVOLVING MIND (1993)
Gordon, Deborah: ANTS AT WORK (1999)
Gould, Stephen Jay: THE STRUCTURES OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY (2002)
Hamilton, William Donald: NARROW ROADS OF GENE LAND (1996)
Hamilton, Terrell: PROCESS AND PATTERN IN EVOLUTION (1967)
Hauser, Marc: MORAL MINDS (2006)
Hinde, Robert: WHY GOOD IS GOOD (2002)
Hölldobler, Bert and Wilson, Edward-Osborne: THE SUPERORGANISM  (2008)
Johnson, Cecil: MIGRATION AND DISPERSAL OF INSECTS BY FLIGHT (1969)
Jolly, Alison: LUCY's LEGACY (1998)
Keller, Laurent: THE LIVES OF ANTS (2009)
Kinji, Imanishi: THE WORLD OF LIVING THINGS (1941)
Kropotkin, Petr: MUTUAL AID (1902)
Levi-Strauss, Claude: LE CRU ET LE CUIT  (1964)
Lewis-Williams, David & Pearce, David: INSIDE THE NEOLITHIC MIND (2005)
Lewontin, Richard: THE GENETIC BASIS OF EVOLUTIONARY CHANGE (1974)
Lovelock, James: GAIA (1979)
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Margulis, Lynn: WHAT IS LIFE? (1995)
Maynard-Smith, John: THEORY OF EVOLUTION (1975)
Maynard Smith, John: EVOLUTION AND THE THEORY OF GAMES (1982)
Mayr, Ernst: TOWARDS A NEW PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY (1988)
Maynard-Smith, Eors: THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS IN EVOLUTION (1995)
Merezhkovsky, Konstantin: THEORY OF TWO PLASMS AS THE BASIS OF SYMBIOGENESIS (1909)
Miller, Geoffrey: THE MATING MIND (2000)
Murchie, Guy: SEVEN MYSTERIES OF LIFE (1978)
Nesse, Randolph & Williams, George: WHY WE GET SICK (1994)
Nowak, Martin: SUPERCOOPERATORS (2011)
Oparin, Alexander: THE ORIGIN OF LIFE (1924)
Premack, David: Original Intelligence: The Architecture of the Human Mind (2002)
Ridley, Mark: MENDEL'S DEMON/ EVOLUTION (1993)
Ridley, Matt: THE RED QUEEN (1994)
Ridley, Matt: THE ORIGINS OF VIRTUE (1997)
Ridley, Mark: THE COOPERATIVE GENE (2001)
Shermer, Michael:  THE SCIENCE OF GOOD AND EVIL (2005)
Shlain, Leonard: SEX, TIME, AND POWER (2003)
Sigmund, Karl: GAMES OF LIFE (1994)
Sober, Elliot and Wilson, David Sloan: UNTO OTHERS (1998)
Trivers, Roberts: SOCIAL EVOLUTION (1985)
Villarreal, Luis: VIRUSES AND THE EVOLUTION OF LIFE (2004)
Von Frisch, Karl:  THE DANCING BEES (1953)
Wallin, Ivan: SYMBIOTICISM AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES (1927)
Wheeler, William-Morton: SOCIAL LIFE AMONG THE INSECTS (1923)
Williams, George: ADAPTATION AND NATURAL SELECTION (1966)
Wilson, Edward Osborne: SOCIOBIOLOGY (1975)
Wilson, Edward Osborne: CONSILIENCE (1998)
Holldobler, Bert & Wilson, Edward: THE SUPERORGANISM (2008)
Wilson, Edward Osborne: THE DIVERSITY OF LIFE (1992)
Wilson, Edward & Lumsden Charles: GENES, MIND AND CULTURE (1981)
Wrangham, Richard: Catching Fire - How Cooking Made Us Human (2009)
Wright, Robert: THE MORAL ANIMAL (1994)
Wright, Robert: NON-ZERO (2000)
Wynne-Edwards, Vero-Copner: ANIMAL DISPERSION IN RELATION TO SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR (1962)
Wynne-Edwards, Vero-Copner: EVOLUTION THROUGH GROUP SELECTION (1986)