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The Origins of Virtue (Paperback, New Ed)
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The Origins of Virtue (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Penguin Press Science Series
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Loot Price R354
Discovery Miles 3 540
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Ridley made his name with an excellent book about sex and
evolution, The Red Queen. This is an even better book, about the
evolution of society, altruism and cooperation - in short,
sociobiology, although that word (regarded by some as an obscenity)
does not appear in the index. There is little that is new in this
book, where we meet such familiar concepts as the Prisoner's
Dilemma and the evolutionary nature of hawks and doves; but Ridley
puts the package together in such a satisfying manner that the
whole is much greater than the sum of its parts. (Kirkus UK)
Why are people nice to each other? What are the reasons for altrusim? Matt Ridley explains how the human mind has evolved a special instinct for social exchange, offering a lucid and persuasive argument about the paradox of human benevolence.
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