Monday, January 5, 2015

Survival of the Nicest’ demonstrates altruism all around

Survival of the Nicest: How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along
Stefan Klein
The Experiment,
It’s comforting to assume that an altruistic nature has made us the civilized humans we are. But it’s less easy to prove. After all, we evolved from hominids who had to fight and scratch — often each other — to get by. Natural selection would seem to favor a selfish type who lives to procreate.
In Survival of the Nicest, newly released in paperback, Klein offers a slew of evidence to the contrary,
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