The Price of Altruism George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 53,6 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 : W. W. Norton & Company
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• Release Date : 17 June 2010

"Enthralling." —Frans de Waal, New York Times Book Review Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest? Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism,

• Publisher : Random House
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• Release Date : 23 November 2010

When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, two distinguished British evolutionary biologists.

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
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• Release Date : 27 March 2012

Looks at the importance of cooperation in human beings and in nature, arguing that this social tool is as important an aspect of evolution as mutation and natural selection.

• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• File Size : 52,5 Mb
• Release Date : 22 June 2010

Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If we crave kindness with such intensity, why is it

• Publisher : Yale University Press
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• 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
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• 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 : A&C Black
• File Size : 54,7 Mb
• Release Date : 03 January 2013

The prize-winning, New York Times bestselling short story collection from the internationally bestselling author of Lincoln in the Bardo 'The best book you'll read this year' New York Times 'Dazzlingly

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 04 October 2016

The explosive debate that transformed our views about time and scientific truth On April 6, 1922, in Paris, Albert Einstein and Henri Bergson publicly debated the nature of time. Einstein considered Bergson's

• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• File Size : 28,8 Mb
• Release Date : 27 February 2012

“Does an excellent job of using evolutionary biology to discuss the origins of religion, music, art, and . . . morality.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review A unique trait of the human species is