Self Organization and Adaptation in Insect Societies
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:289 - 298 (1990)
| Abstract | Division of labor and its associated phenomena have been viewed as prime examples of group-level adaptations. However, the adaptations are the result of the process of evolution by natural selection and thus require that groups of insects once existed and competed for reproduction, some of which had a heritable division of labor while others did not. We present models, based on those of Kauffman (1984) that demonstrate how division of labor may occur spontaneously among groups of mutually tolerant individuals. We propose that division of labor itself is not a product of natural selection but instead is a "typical" outcome of self organization. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | No categories specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,705 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesFred D'Agostino (2009). From the Organization to the Division of Cognitive Labor. Politics, Philosophy and Economics 8 (1):101-129.
Kevin J. S. Zollman (2010). The Epistemic Benefit of Transient Diversity. Erkenntnis 72 (1):17 - 35.
Robert C. Richardson (2001). Complexity, Self-Organization and Selection. Biology and Philosophy 16 (5).
Martha E. Gimenez (2005). Capitalism and the Oppression of Women: Marx Revisited. Science and Society 69 (1):11 - 32.
Isidor Wallimann (1981). Estrangement: Marx's Conception of Human Nature and the Division of Labor. Greenwood Press.
Bence Nanay (2005). Can Cumulative Selection Explain Adaptation? Philosophy of Science 72 (5):1099-1112.
David C. Geary (1998). Sexual Selection, the Division of Labor, and the Evolution of Sex Differences. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 21 (3):444-447.
Andrew Hamilton, Nathan Smith & Matthew Haber (2009). Social Insects and the Individuality Thesis: Cohesion and the Colony as a Selectable Individual. In Juergen Gadau & Jennifer Fewell (eds.), Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Sociocomplexity. Harvard.
Richard M. Burian & Robert C. Richardson (1990). Form and Order in Evolutionary Biology: Stuart Kauffman's Transformation of Theoretical Biology. PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1990:267 - 287.
Rae Lesser Blumberg (2004). Extending Lenski's Schema to Hold Up Both Halves of the Sky: A Theory-Guided Way of Conceptualizing Agrarian Societies That Illuminates a Puzzle About Gender Stratification. Sociological Theory 22 (2):278-291.
Samir Okasha & Cedric Paternotte (2012). Group Adaptation, Formal Darwinism and Contextual Analysis. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 25 (6):1127–1139.
Kostas Kampourakis (2013). Teaching About Adaptation: Why Evolutionary History Matters. Science and Education.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2011-05-29Total downloads3 ( #202,056 of 549,528 )Recent downloads (6 months)1 ( #63,397 of 549,528 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
