Dissertation, University of New South Wales (Australia) (
2003)
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Abstract
Biographical sketch of Peter Kropotkin . History and theory of mutualism and Kropotkin's mutual aid theories. Gene, individual, group and species selectionism/natural and sexual selection/economic, genetic and reproductive explanations of cooperative behaviour/sociality and intelligence/functional and non-functional sociality/social hierarchies/mutualism and morality/speciation and environment/geographic and reproductive isolation/sympatric and allopatric speciation/habitat tracking, environmentally induced or acquired characters and their inheritance in plants and animals/symbiosis and symbiogenesis/evolution of multicellularity. ;Kropotkin's social anarchism and environmentalism. History of communal revolution/social resolution of conflict in non-governmental societies and medieval city/diffuse sanctions/causes of crime/prisons/Kropotkin's environmental vision. ;Kropotkin's biophysics of nature. Self-organisation and natural process/biogenesis/complexity and chaos theory/bio-physics and mathematics/eleectro-bio-dynamics/non-equilibrium thermodynamics/biospheric self-regulation/internal and external organisation/fluidity and natural process/decentralisation and natural order. ;Evolution, revolution and the idea of biological and social progress . ;Comprehensive bibliography of Kropotkin's works in English