Investigates and sets out the common principles of social evolution operating across all taxa and levels of biological organisation.

Tang provides a coherent and systematic exploration of social evolution as a phenomenon and as a paradigm. He critically builds on existing discussions on socia

Dispelling the general assumption that social institutions survive because of their sophisticated adaptive advantages, this ground-breaking work asserts that th

This is a masterly theoretical treatment of one of the central problems in evolutionary biology, the evolution of social cooperation and conflict. Steven Frank

Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadl