书目名称 | Origins of Altruism and Cooperation | 编辑 | Robert W. Sussman,C. Robert Cloninger | 视频video | | 概述 | This book is about the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and on humans.The anthropological, primatological, paleontol | 丛书名称 | Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | This book is about the evolution and nature of cooperation and altruism in social-living animals, focusing especially on non-human primates and on humans. Although cooperation and altruism are often thought of as ways to attenuate competition and aggression within groups, or are related to the action of “selfish genes”, there is increasing evidence that these behaviors are the result of biological mechanisms that have developed through natural selection in group-living species. This evidence leads to the conclusion that cooperative and altruistic behavior are not just by-products of competition but are rather the glue that underlies the ability for primates and humans to live in groups. The anthropological, primatological, paleontological, behavioral, neurobiological, and psychological evidence provided in this book gives a more optimistic view of human nature than the more popular, conventional view of humans being naturally and basically aggressive and warlike. Although competition and aggression are recognized as an important part of the non-human primate and human behavioral repertoire, the evidence from these fields indicates that cooperation and altruism may represent the mor | 出版日期 | Book 2011 | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9520-9 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4614-2986-9 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4419-9520-9Series ISSN 1574-3489 Series E-ISSN 1574-3497 | issn_series | 1574-3489 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 |
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