Price of Altruism George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness

Name: Price of Altruism George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
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ISBN: 9780393339994

ISBN-10: 0393339998

ISBN-13: 9780393339994

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Authors: Oren Harman

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Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.20" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Oren Harman is the chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, the author of The Man Who Invented the Chromosome and The Price of Altruism, and coeditor of Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology. He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel.



Prologue






War or Peace?



New York



Selections



Roaming



Friendly Starfish, Selfish Games



Hustling



Solutions



No Easy Way






London



"Coincidence" Conversion



"Love" Conversion



Reckonings



Altruism



Last Days


Epilogue



Covariance and Kin Selection



The Full Price Equation and Levels of Selection



Covariance and the Fundamental Theorem


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index