Screen LibraryOrigins of altruism and cooperation
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9520-9 |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xvi, 439 p.): ill. |
| ISBN: |
144199520X (electronic bk.) 9781441995209 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | Q958 |
| CLC: | Q958.1 |
| Contents: |
"Derived from a conference entitled "Man the Hunted and the Origin and Nature of Human Sociality, Altruism and Well-Being" held at Washington University, March, 2009"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references and index. pt. 1. Cooperation, altruism, and human evolution -- pt. 2. Altruism and cooperation among nonhuman primates -- pt. 3. Altruism and cooperation among humans : the ethnographic evidence -- pt. 4. Neurological and hormonal mechanisms for cooperation and altruism -- pt. 5. Human altruism and cooperation : needs and the promotion of well-being in modern life. 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. Although cooperation and altruism are often thought of as ways to attenuate competition and aggression within groups, or are related to the action of "selfish genes", there is increasing evidence that these behaviors are the result of biological mechanisms that have developed through natural selection in group-living species. This evidence leads to the conclusion that cooperative and altruistic behavior are not just by-products of |