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Describes all levels of cooperation that make up humans and our societies
Explains how cooperation evolves
Summarizes findings from biological and cultural evolution
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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?
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Book Title: For Whose Benefit?
Book Subtitle: The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation
Authors: Patrik Lindenfors
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50874-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50873-3Published: 04 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84510-4Published: 21 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50874-0Published: 27 March 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 172
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Evolutionary Biology, Cell Biology, Game Theory, Biological Psychology