The Altruism Equation : : Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness / / Lee Alan Dugatkin.
In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin worried that the goodness he observed in n...
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Dugatkin, Lee Alan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Altruism Equation : Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness / Lee Alan Dugatkin. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011] ©2007 1 online resource (208 p.) : 3 line illus. 1 table. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. A Special Difficulty That Might Prove Fatal -- Chapter Two. Darwin's Bulldog versus the Prince of Evolution -- Chapter Three. The Greatest Word from Science since Darwin -- Chapter Four. J.B.S.: The Last Man Who Might Know All There Was to Be Known -- Chapter Five. Hamilton's Rule -- Chapter Six. The Price of Kinship -- Chapter Seven. Spreading the Word -- Chapter Eight. Keepers of the Flame -- Chapter Nine. Curator of Mathematical Models -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin worried that the goodness he observed in nature could be the Achilles heel of his theory. Ever since then, scientists and other thinkers have engaged in a fierce debate about the origins of goodness that has dragged politics, philosophy, and religion into what remains a major question for evolutionary biology. The Altruism Equation traces the history of this debate from Darwin to the present through an extraordinary cast of characters-from the Russian prince Petr Kropotkin, who wanted to base society on altruism, to the brilliant biologist George Price, who fell into poverty and succumbed to suicide as he obsessed over the problem. In a final surprising turn, William Hamilton, the scientist who came up with the equation that reduced altruism to the cold language of natural selection, desperately hoped that his theory did not apply to humans. Hamilton's Rule, which states that relatives are worth helping in direct proportion to their blood relatedness, is as fundamental to evolutionary biology as Newton's laws of motion are to physics. But even today, decades after its formulation, Hamilton's Rule is still hotly debated among those who cannot accept that goodness can be explained by a simple mathematical formula. For the first time, Lee Alan Dugatkin brings to life the people, the issues, and the passions that have surrounded the altruism debate. Readers will be swept along by this fast-paced tale of history, biography, and scientific discovery. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) Altruism. Altruistic behavior in animals. PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691125909 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400841431?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400841431 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400841431.jpg |
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