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Energy and Evolutionary Conflict The Metabolic Roots of Cooperation

By: Neil W Blackstone(Author)
124 pages, 8 colour & 17 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
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In the mid- to late-twentieth century, large scientific conflicts flared in two seemingly distinct fields of scientific inquiry. In bioenergetics, which examines how organisms obtain and utilize energy, the chemiosmotic hypothesis of Mitchell suggested a novel mechanism for energy conversion. In evolutionary biology, meanwhile, Wynne Edwards strongly articulated the view that organisms may act for the "good of the group". This work crystallised a long history of imprecise thinking about the evolution of cooperation. While both controversies have received ample attention, no one has ever suggested that one might inform the other, i.e., that energy metabolism in general and chemiosmosis, in particular, might be relevant to the evolution of cooperation. The central idea is nevertheless remarkably simple. Chemiosmosis rapidly converts energy, and once storage capacity is exceeded, an overabundance of product has various negative consequences. While to some extent chemiosmotic processes can be modulated, under certain circumstances it is also possible to simply disperse the products into the environment.

Energy and Evolutionary Conflict argues that these two heretofore distinct scientific disciplines are connected, thereby suggesting that a ubiquitous process of energy conversion may underlie the evolution of cooperation and link major transitions in the history of life that have been regarded as mechanistically unrelated.

Contents

Chapter. 1. Introduction
Chapter. 2. Energy Conversion: How Life Makes a Living
Chapter. 3. The puzzle of cooperation
Chapter. 4. A Thumbnail Sketch of the History of Life
Chapter. 5. Early insights: a fascination with metabolic gradients
Chapter. 6. How can metabolism lead to groups?
Chapter. 7. Chemiosmosis and the origin of eukaryotes
Chapter. 8. Chemiosmosis and modern symbioses
Chapter. 9. The evolution of multicellularity
Chapter. 10. Metabolism and multicellularity revisited
Chapter. 11. Metabolic vestiges of conflict mediation in modern biology
Chapter. 12. Conclusions

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Biography

Neil W. Blackstone is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Illinois University. His research seeks to employ evolutionary principles to provide a predictive framework for both current ecological interactions and interactions that occurred earlier in the history of life. He has published two books and over 90 articles.

By: Neil W Blackstone(Author)
124 pages, 8 colour & 17 b/w illustrations
Publisher: Springer Nature
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