The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness

by Lee Alan Dugatkin

Book Overview

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 nature could be the Achilles heel of his theory. Ever since then, scientists and other thinkers have engaged in a fierce debate about the origins of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691125902
• ISBN13: 9780691125909
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"