For Whose Benefit?: The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation
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Author: Patrik Lindenfors
Publisher: Springer
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 3319845101
ISBN 13: 978-3319845104
Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 3319508733
ISBN 13: 978-3319508733
Publisher: Springer
Paperback:
ISBN 10: 3319845101
ISBN 13: 978-3319845104
Hardcover:
ISBN 10: 3319508733
ISBN 13: 978-3319508733
This book takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our thoughts to the human super-organism.
Cooperation is one of life’s fundamental principles. We are all made of parts – genes, cells, organs, neurons, but also of ideas, or ‘memes’. Our societies too are made of parts – us humans. Is all this cooperation fundamentally the same process?