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• Publisher : Yale University Press
• File Size : 39,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 January 2015

Argues that altruism is an inherent factor of group functionality and discusses how studying group function can promote positive changes to the human condition.

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 48,7 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 2024

"Unlike any other study in its field, The Altruistic Brain synthesizes into one theory the most important research into how and why - by purely physical mechanisms - humans empathize

• Publisher : Little, Brown
• File Size : 38,6 Mb
• Release Date : 24 August 2011

After decades studying creatures great and small, evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson had an epiphany: Darwin's theory won't fully prove itself until it improves the quality of human life in

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 10 February 2020

It has forever been said that we are ruled by our emotions, but this today is truer than ever. Yet, the emotions are utterly neglected by our system of education,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 1989

Science need not be dull and bogged down by jargon, as Richard Dawkins proves in this entertaining look at evolution. The themes he takes up are the concepts of altruistic

• Publisher : OUP USA
• File Size : 40,5 Mb
• Release Date : 05 January 2012

Pathological Altruism is a groundbreaking new book - the first to explore the negative aspects of altruism and empathy, seemingly uniformly positive traits. In fact, pathological altruism, in the form

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• File Size : 50,5 Mb
• Release Date : 28 May 2024

Authored by the world's leading scholar on altruism, and based on decades of research, this landmark work is an authoritative scholarly resource on the theory surrounding altruism and its potential

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 30,8 Mb
• Release Date : 20 June 2011

Describes the intellectual journey of eccentric American genius George Price, who tried to answer the evolutionary riddle of why people are nice, and eventually gave away all his belongings and

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• File Size : 38,9 Mb
• Release Date : 19 October 2018

For centuries, the egoism-altruism debate has echoed through Western thought. Egoism says that the motivation for everything we do, including our seemingly selfless acts of care for others, is to

• Publisher : NYU Press
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• Release Date : 01 July 1995

All but buried for most of the twentieth century, the concept of altruism has re-emerged in this last quarter as a focus of intense scholarly inquiry and general public interest.