Dugatkin The Altruism Equation

Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4143-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 208 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Dugatkin, Lee Alan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter One: A Special Difficulty That Might Prove Fatal 1

Chapter Two: Darwin's Bulldog versus the Prince of Evolution 12

Chapter Three: The Greatest Word from Science since Darwin 37

Chapter Four: J.B.S.: The Last Man Who Might Know All There Was to Be Known 61

Chapter Five: Hamilton's Rule 86

Chapter Six: The Price of Kinship 107

Chapter Seven: Spreading the Word 115

Chapter Eight: Keepers of the Flame 123

Chapter Nine: Curator of Mathematical Models 142

Notes 151

Index 185

Über Autor(innen)

Lee Alan Dugatkin is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Louisville. He is the author of many books, including the popular Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans and Model Systems in Behavioral Ecology (Princeton).