The Origins of Virtue: Human Instints and the Evolution of Cooperation - Hardcover
Examining the unique system of favors and obligations in trade, religion, and warfare, the author of The Red Queen suggests that human nature is indeed selfish, but that it is selfishness that promotes cooperation and serves evolution.
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Matt Ridley has worked as a science editor, Washington correspondent, and American editor for the Economist. A research fellow of the Institute for Economic Affairs and a Trustee of the International Centre for Life, he lives in Northumberland, England.
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Suggests a biological basis for the social organization and cooperation shown by the human race, and traces the evolution of society.
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- Publication date1997
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