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A Theory of Everyone

The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going

by Michael Muthukrishna

ISBN: 9780262552943

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 4, 2025

A blueprint for a better future that offers a unified theory of human behavior, culture, and society.

Darwinizing Gaia

Natural Selection and Multispecies Community Evolution

by W. Ford Doolittle

ISBN: 9780262549523

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 3, 2024

A reinterpretation of James Lovelock's Gaia Hypothesis through the lens of Darwinian natural selection and multispecies community evolution.

A History of Bodies, Brains, and Minds

The Evolution of Life and Consciousness

by Francisco Aboitiz

ISBN: 9780262049023

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 17, 2024

A panoramic view of the evolution of life on our planet, from its origins to humanity's future.

Niche Construction

How Life Contributes to Its Own Evolution

by John Odling-Smee

ISBN: 9780262548168

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: September 3, 2024

How niche construction theory extends evolutionary theory beyond natural selection to a more general theory about the coevolution of organisms with their environments.

Cooperation and Its Evolution

Edited by Kim Sterelny, Richard Joyce, Brett Calcott, Ben Fraser and Richard Joyce

ISBN: 9780262552783

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 6, 2024

Essays from a range of disciplinary perspectives show the central role that cooperation plays in structuring our world.

Investors and Exploiters in Ecology and Economics

Principles and Applications

Edited by Luc-Alain Giraldeau, Philipp Heeb and Michael Kosfeld

ISBN: 9780262552004

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 21, 2024

Experts from the natural and social sciences examine the coexistence of productive and exploitative behavior strategies observable in many species at many levels.

The Acceleration of Cultural Change

From Ancestors to Algorithms

by R. Alexander Bentley and Michael J. O'Brien

Foreword by John Maeda

ISBN: 9780262551977

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 21, 2024

How culture evolves through algorithms rather than knowledge inherited from ancestors.

Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology

Edited by Michael J. O'Brien, Briggs Buchanan and Metin I. Eren

ISBN: 9780262552080

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 21, 2024

Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages.