- Altrui sme, Sociale evolutie, Evolution (Biology), Evolutionary Ethics
If evolution by natural selection relentlessly favors self-interest, why do human beings live in complex societies and show so much cooperative spirit? In The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley, a zoologist and former American editor of the Economist, shows that recent research in a number of fields has suggested a resolution of the apparent contradiction between self-interest and mutual aid.
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- Author
- Matt Ridley
- First published
- 1996
- Pages
- 295
- Publisher
- Viking, Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780670874491
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