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| Other authors / contributors: | Sussman, Robert W., 1941-
Cloninger, C. Robert.
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| ISBN: | 144199520X (electronic bk.)
9781441995209 (electronic bk.)
9781441995193 (print)
1441995196 (print)
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| Notes: | "Derived from a conference entitled "Man the Hunted and the Origin and Nature of Human Sociality, Altruism and Well-Being" held at Washington University, March, 2009"--Pref.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
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| Summary: | This book is about the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and on humans. Although cooperation and altruism are often thought of as ways to attenuate competition and aggression within groups, or are related to the action of "selfish genes", there is increasing evidence that these behaviors are the result of biological mechanisms that have developed through natural selection in group-living species. This evidence leads to the conclusion that cooperative and altruistic behavior are not just by-products of
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| Other form: | Print version: Origins of altruism and cooperation. New York : Springer, c2011 1441995196
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