Survival of the Nicest – How Nature Shapes Our World Through Cooperation
Cooperation and diversity will be the solution to overcoming the crises of our age
Cooperation is a fundamental principle of all life on earth. ›Survival of the Fittest‹, or the notion that competition drives natural selection, may be crucial to gradual development and improvement – but innovations can only emerge from symbiosis. Today, we know that not a single animal, plant or complex organism can make it in this world without cooperation. Dirk Brockmann guides us through the world of symbiosis, describing the power of bacteria and explaining how revolutionary innovations were only made possible through cooperation.
- A fascinating perspective linking scientific processes with social ones
- Exciting subject which has received little attention so far
- »One of the most brilliant scientists, who this country is lucky to have.« Markus Lanz (German TV host)
Dirk Brockmann, born in 1969, is a professor of Biology at Berlin’s Humboldt University and heads a research group at the Robert Koch Institute. He worked as researcher and professor of applied mathematics in the US. He is particularly interested in the structures inherent to complex biological and social networks, and how these structures affect the processes that operate within them.
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