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A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
A Cooperative Species Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
Author: Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis
Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin.In A Cooperative Spec...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691151250
ISBN-10: 0691151253
Publication Date: 6/21/2011
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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