Altruism Equation Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness

Name: Altruism Equation Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness
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ISBN: 9780691125909

ISBN-10: 0691125902

ISBN-13: 9780691125909

Edition: 2007

Authors: Lee Alan Dugatkin

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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 Equationtraces the history of this debate from Darwin to the present through an extraordinary cast of…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/10/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.45" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



A Special Difficulty That Might Prove Fatal



Darwin's Bulldog versus the Prince of Evolution



The Greatest Word from Science since Darwin



J.B.S.: The Last Man Who Might Know All There Was to Be Known



Hamilton's Rule



The Price of Kinship



Spreading the Word



Keepers of the Flame



Curator of Mathematical Models


Notes


Index