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Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10 - Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
What motiviates altruism? How essential is altruism to the human experience? Is altruism readily accessible to the ordinary person? Exploring these questions th
Language: en
Pages: 290
Pages: 290
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-10 - Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
What motivates altruism? How essential is the phenomenon of altruism to the human experience? Is altruism readily accessible to the ordinary person? In The Altr
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 440
Pages: 440
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-02 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
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. Altho
Language: en
Pages: 500
Pages: 500
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-28 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
The concept of altruism, or disinterested concern for another's welfare, has been discussed by everyone from theologians to psychologists to biologists. In this
Language: en
Pages: 416
Pages: 416
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-10-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks—or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose
Language: en
Pages: 280
Pages: 280
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-31 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
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 ec
Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1894 - Publisher:
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-11-13 - Publisher: Oxford University Press
Since the beginning of recorded history, law and religion have provided "rules" that define good behavior. When we obey such rules, we assign to some external a
Language: en
Pages: 295
Pages: 295
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
"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 mechani
