ISBN:
9780691158167
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9781400838837 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
275 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781400838837
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
DDC:
302.1/4
Keywords:
Online-Publikation
Abstract:
Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin. In A Cooperative Species, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis--pioneers in the new experimental and evolutionary science of human behavior--show that the central issue is not why selfish people act generously, but instead how genetic and cultural evolution has...
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