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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...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2006.
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