MARTIN A. NOWAK is Professor of Biology and Mathematics at Harvard University. He is Director of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, for which Harvard obtained a donation of $30 million. Nowak studied biochemistry and mathematics at the University of Vienna where he received his Ph-D summa-cum-laude in 1989. Afterwards, he went to Oxford to work with Robert May (Lord May of Oxford). Nowak became Professor of Mathematical Biology at the University of Oxford at the age of 32. In 1998 he moved to Princeton to establish the first center in Theoretical Biology at the Institute for Advanced Study. In July 2003, Nowak was recruited by Harvard University as a full professor.
Nowak has won many prizes and has revolutionized the mathematical approach to biology. He has discovered fundamental principles of evolutionary dynamics according to which life unfolds. Nowak has made important contributions to the understanding of virus infections and cancer. He has pioneered the mathematical theory for the evolution of human language and altruistic behavior. Nowak has invented concepts like indirect reciprocity, network reciprocity, evolutionary graph theory, stochastic game dynamics, generous tit-for-tat, and win-stay, lose-shift. He is the author of over 30 papers in Nature, Science and Scientific American. In total, Nowak has published around 300 papers. Nowak is generally considered the world's foremost authority on evolutionary game theory.
Supercooperators will be Nowak's first book for a general audience.
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ROGER HIGHFIELD, Ph.D. (Co-Writer) studied for his doctorate at Oxford University and the Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble. He is Editor of New Scientist magazine, which is now the world's biggest selling weekly science and technology magazine. Prior to joining New Scientist, he was the award-winning Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph, where he worked for more than 20 years.
He has written/coauthored six popular science books, two of which have been bestsellers, including After Dolly, The Science of Harry Potter, The Physics of Christmas, The Private Lives of Albert Einstein, and Frontiers of Complexity. All of which have been translated into foreign editions.
His most recent work was as the outside editor on genomic researcher J. Craig Venter's autobiography, A Life Decoded, published in November, 2007 (Viking, US; Allen Lane, UK) .
EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation involved, how could it have arisen from nature "red in tooth and claw"?
Martin Nowak, one of the world's experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. He offers a new explanation for the origin of life and a new theory for the origins of language, biology's second greatest information revolution after the emergence of genes. SuperCooperators also brings to light his game-changing work on disease. Cancer is fundamentally a failure of the body's cells to cooperate, Nowak has discovered, but organs are cleverly designed to foster cooperation, and he explains how this new understanding can be used in novel cancer treatments.
Nowak and Highfield examine the phenomena of reciprocity, reputation, and reward, explaining how selfless behavior arises naturally from competition; how forgiveness, generosity, and kindness have a mathematical rationale; how companies can be better designed to promote cooperation; and how there is remarkable overlap between the recipe for cooperation that arises from quantitative analysis and the codes of conduct seen in major religions, such as the Golden Rule.
In his first book written for a wide audience, this hugely influential scientist explains his cutting-edge research into the mysteries of cooperation, from the rise of multicellular life to Good Samaritans. With wit and clarity, Nowak and Highfield make the case that cooperation, not competition, is the defining human trait. SuperCooperators will expand our understanding of evolution and provoke debate for years to come.
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Professor: Does Altruism Require Consciousness? I: I agree with you that consciousness seems needed. But: 1. We cannot say that consciousness is exclusively defining property of human species, rather than of any other species (e.g., single cell bacteria)...
評分無語瞭,這也就學術!從頭到尾印象最深的就是作者在大吹牛逼 用數學解決閤作問題是作者極力吹牛逼的地方,遺憾的是你從來不會在書中找到這方麵的有效辦法,哪怕是讓人信服的一點點。 用書裏的一句話很恰當: 結論就像從魔術師帽子裏跳齣的兔子
評分打開國門之後,“物競天擇、適者生存”一直是中國啓濛者最愛的話語,《物種起源》與《國富論》先後被翻譯引進,激勵中國一代代青年改造舊社會,創造新社會。從“師夷長技以製夷”,到80年代後期再一次啓濛,都是希望以先進的科技和管理方式實現富國強兵,以圖“驅除韃虜、...
評分打開國門之後,“物競天擇、適者生存”一直是中國啓濛者最愛的話語,《物種起源》與《國富論》先後被翻譯引進,激勵中國一代代青年改造舊社會,創造新社會。從“師夷長技以製夷”,到80年代後期再一次啓濛,都是希望以先進的科技和管理方式實現富國強兵,以圖“驅除韃虜、...
圖書標籤: 社會學 生物學 行為學 科普 博弈論 博弈 society-social-sci 社會
這本書和我的套路很接近,默認信任,一次違例,永不再信,不過話雖這麼說,很多時候還是願意再給一次機會的
評分何等的引人入勝!
評分Amazing book for mass reading-1.A brief intro. linking together subjects he has done via the threads of evolution concept and mathematical tools (esp.system dynamics,game theory);2.Main idea to convey is the existence and function of genetic mutation, multi molecular/cellular selection, human being's competition and cooperation in societal network
評分好書
評分好書
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