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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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