Description
Product ID: | 9780691158167 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | A Cooperative Species |
Subtitle: | Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution |
Authors: | Author: Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles |
Page Count: | 280 |
Subjects: | Social theory, Social theory, Social and cultural anthropology, Evolution, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Evolution |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 Specie |
Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-07-21 |