Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior Elliott Sober, David Sloan Wilson

Name: Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior Elliott Sober, David Sloan Wilson
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Autor	Elliott Sober, David Sloan Wilson
Uvez	Meki
Izdavač	Harvard University Press
Godina izdavanja	2000
Stranica	394
Stanje	Rabljeno / Vrlo dobro očuvano 9/10
Jezik	Engleski

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Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior Elliott Sober, David Sloan Wilson

No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks--or so science has claimed for years. This book, whose publication promises to be a major scientific event, tells us differently. In Unto Others philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist David Sloan Wilson demonstrate once and for all that unselfish behavior is in fact an important feature of both biological and human nature. Their book provides a panoramic view of altruism throughout the animal kingdom--from self-sacrificing parasites to insects that subsume themselves in the superorganism of a colony to the human capacity for selflessness--even as it explains the evolutionary sense of such behavior.

Explaining how altruistic behavior can evolve by natural selection, this book finally gives credence to the idea of group selection that was originally proposed by Darwin but denounced as heretical in the 1960s. With their account of this controversy, Sober and Wilson offer a detailed case study of scientific change as well as an indisputable argument for group selection as a legitimate theory in evolutionary biology.