SuperCooperators

SuperCooperators
ISBN-10
0857860453
ISBN-13
9780857860453
Category
Social Science
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2011-03-17
Publisher
Canongate Books
Authors
Roger Highfield, Martin Nowack

Description

Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to Life If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence. But as Harvard's celebrated evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak explains in this groundbreaking and controversial book, cooperation is central to the four-billion-year-old puzzle of life. Indeed, it is cooperation not competition that is the defining human trait.

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