The Bookshelf
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Christopher Boehm, Moral Origins, The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame (2012)
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Anthropologist Christopher Boehm is interested in this question: Why did humans evolve a conscience? Before exploring this question and w...
Monday, September 17, 2012
Martin A. Nowak, SuperCooperators (2011)
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In 2010, Martin Nowak collaborated with biologist Edward O. Wilson (see previous post ) and mathematician Corina Tarnita in publishing an ...
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Edward O. Wilson, The Social Conquest of Earth (2012)
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We tend to think of evolution in terms of a struggle, a "competitive struggle" in which natural selection favors certain genes, or...
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