Evolutionary Explanations for Cooperation Export

@article{citeulike:1591511, abstract = {Natural selection favours genes that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce. This would appear to lead to a world dominated by selfish behaviour. However, cooperation can be found at all levels of biological organisation: genes cooperate in genomes, organelles cooperate to form eukaryotic cells, cells cooperate to make multicellular organisms, bacterial parasites cooperate to overcome host defences, animals breed cooperatively, and humans and insects cooperate to build societies. Over the last 40 years, biologists have developed a theoretical framework that can explain cooperation at all these levels. Here, we summarise this theory, illustrate how it may be applied to real organisms and discuss future directions.}, author = {West, Stuart A. and Griffin, Ashleigh S. and Gardner, Andy}, citeulike-article-id = {1591511}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.004}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17714660}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=17714660}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VRT-4PG33JY-T/2/e1b1dcd7166d1317514c7624e8d3f584}, day = {21}, doi = {10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.004}, journal = {Current Biology}, keywords = {cooperation, evolutionism, review}, month = {August}, number = {16}, pages = {R661--R672}, posted-at = {2008-09-08 11:47:00}, priority = {5}, title = {Evolutionary Explanations for Cooperation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.004}, volume = {17}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1591511 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1591511 N2 - Natural selection favours genes that increase an organism's ability to survive and reproduce. This would appear to lead to a world dominated by selfish behaviour. However, cooperation can be found at all levels of biological organisation: genes cooperate in genomes, organelles cooperate to form eukaryotic cells, cells cooperate to make multicellular organisms, bacterial parasites cooperate to overcome host defences, animals breed cooperatively, and humans and insects cooperate to build societies. Over the last 40 years, biologists have developed a theoretical framework that can explain cooperation at all these levels. Here, we summarise this theory, illustrate how it may be applied to real organisms and discuss future directions. IS - 16 JF - Current Biology EP - R672 TI - Evolutionary Explanations for Cooperation VL - 17 SP - R661 KW - cooperation KW - evolutionism KW - review AU - West, Stuart AU - Griffin, Ashleigh AU - Gardner, Andy PY - 2007/08/21/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2007.06.004 ER -