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Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-20 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Language: en
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-17 - Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Language: en
Pages: 466
Pages: 466
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-23 - Publisher: Random House
When George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, two d
Language: en
Pages: 433
Pages: 433
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-02 - Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
This book is about the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and on humans. Altho
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-07-21 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
Is all human behavior based on self-interest? Many social and biological theories would argue so, but such a perspective does not explain the many truly heroic