No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem,
a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for
years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major
scientific event, tells us differently. In "Unto Others"
philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist David Sloan Wilson
demonstrate once and for all that unselfish behavior is in fact an
important feature of both biological and human nature. Their book
provides a panoramic view of altruism throughout the animal
kingdom--from self-sacrificing parasites to insects that subsume
themselves in the superorganism of a colony to the human capacity
for selflessness--even as it explains the evolutionary sense of
such behavior.
Explaining how altruistic behavior can evolve by natural
selection, this book finally gives credence to the idea of group
selection that was originally proposed by Darwin but denounced as
heretical in the 1960s. With their account of this controversy,
Sober and Wilson offer a detailed case study of scientific change
as well as an indisputable argument for group selection as a
legitimate theory in evolutionary biology.
"Unto Others" also takes a novel evolutionary approach in
explaining the ultimate psychological motives behind unselfish
human behavior. Developing a theory of the proximate mechanisms
that most likely evolved to motivate adaptive helping behavior,
Sober and Wilson show how people and perhaps other species evolved
the capacity to care for others as a goal in itself.
A truly interdisciplinary work that blends biology, philosophy,
psychology, and anthropology, this book will permanently change not
just our view of selfless behavior but also our understandingof
many issues in evolutionary biology and the social sciences.
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