They then examine altruism - cooperation which includes the sometimes conscious choice to act sacrificially for the collective good - as a key concept in scientific attempts to explain the origins of morality
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Trundling along in essentially the same form for some 220 million years
Evolution and Human Sexual Behavior invites us into the thought - experiment of imagining human sex from the vantage point of our primate cousins
Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language, and Religion Format:Hardcover They then examine altruism -Over the past few decades, a growing body of research has emerged from a variety of disciplines to highlight the importance of cultural evolution in understanding human behavior. Wider application of these insights, however, has been hampered by traditional disciplinary boundaries. To remedy this, in this volume leading researchers from theoretical biology, developmental and cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, religious