Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
by Elliott Sober, David Sloan Wilson (Author)
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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. Sober and Wilson show more offer a detailed case study of scientific change as well as an indisputable argument for group selection as a legitimate theory in evolutionary biology. show lessTags
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Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and winner of the 2008 Prometheus Prize for his lifetime contribution to expanding the frontiers of research in philosophy and science. He is the author of nine other books, including Evidence and show more Evolution: The Logic behind the Science and Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution, and Inference, winch won the prestigious Lakatos Prize in the Philosophy of Science. show less
David Sloan Wilson is president of the Evolution Institute and SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University.
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- Original publication date
- 1998
- Dedication
- To altruists everywhere, especially those who are unsure as to what their motives really are
- First words
- The concept of altruism in everyday language seems to require an element of both action and motive.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)It is heartening to contemplate the emergence of a legitimate pluralism -- for evolutionary theories of social behavior, for theories of psychological motivation, and for the larger intellectual traditions that influence how we think of ourselves and the world around us.
- Blurbers
- Frank, Robert H.; Wilson, Edward O.; Sulloway, Frank; de Waal, Frans
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