How to Win the Emergence of Life, Language, Culture, and Why Nice Guy

Name: How to Win the Emergence of Life, Language, Culture, and Why Nice Guy
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ISBN: 9781847673367

ISBN-10: 1847673368

ISBN-13: 9781847673367

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nowak

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Darwin's evolutionary theory about the survival of the fittest has one major chink. If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to save a stranger? Some argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary side issues of little consequence. But as celebrated evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak explains in this ground-breaking book, cooperation is central to the puzzle of life. Cooperation is fundamental to how molecules in the primordial soup crossed the watershed separating dead chemistry from biochemistry. It's key to understanding why language evolved. And cooperation is the reason that people live in towns, villages…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Canongate Books
Publication date: 3/17/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.45" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English