A cooperative species
Subtitle: human reciprocity and its evolution
By: Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Contributors: Gintis, Herbert
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780691151250
Subjects: Behavior evolution; Cooperation; Cooperativeness
Description: 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 produced a species in which substantial numbers make sacrifices to uphold ethical norms and to help even total strangers -- from cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.