Ben Fraser

You Know You're a Cat Lover When...

Emma Burgess

A handy symptoms guide to discern when love for your little lion has turned to lunacy You know you're a cat lover when you perch precariously on the arm rest rather than evict your feline friend from the best seat in the house. If this sounds all too familiar, read on to discover whether you're the number one member of the feline fan club or just plain mouser mad!

You Know You're a Cat Lover When....

Richard Joyce

Kim Sterelny

Brett Calcott

Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world. This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that range from empirical survey to conceptual modeling, reflecting the rich diversity of work in the field. They explore a wide taxonomic range, concentrating on bacteria, social insects, and, especially, humans. Part I ("Agents and Environments") investigates the connections of social cooperation in social organizations to the conditions that make cooperation profitable and stable, focusing on the interactions of agent, population, and environment. Part II ("Agents and Mechanisms") focuses on how proximate mechanisms emerge and operate in the evolutionary process and how they shape evolutionary trajectories. Throughout the book, certain themes emerge that demonstrate the ubiquity of questions regarding cooperation in evolutionary biology: the generation and division of the profits of cooperation; transitions in individuality; levels of selection, from gene to organism; and the "human cooperation explosion" that makes our own social behavior particularly puzzling from an evolutionary perspective.

Cooperation and Its Evolution

You know you're a football fanatic when... ... your mobile ringtone sounds suspiciously like the theme tune for Match of the Day. ... you have your house carpeted in AstroTurf. If this sounds all too familiar, read on to discover whether you're truly obsessed with the beautiful game or just another armchair supporter.

Ben Fraser

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