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The altruism equation : seven scientists search for the origins of goodness /
In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? This problem plagued Charles Darwin in the 1850s as he developed his theory of evolution through natural selection. Indeed, Darwin worried that the goodness he observed in n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A special difficulty that might prove fatal
- Darwin's bulldog versus the prince of evolution
- The greatest word from science since Darwin
- J.B.S. : the last man who might know all there was to be known
- Hamilton's rule
- The price of kinship
- Spreading the word
- Keepers of the flame
- Curator of mathematical models.