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Enriching Publisher''s Weekly

Excellent and illuminatingWall Street Journal

In the tradition of Richard Dawkins''s The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani''s The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival.

Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It's how life progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material to nation states. But given what we know about evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all the genes in the body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkats care for one another's offspring? Why do babbler birds in the Kalahari form colonies in which only a single pair breeds? And how come some reef-dwelling fish punish each other for harming fish fr

The Social Instinct

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      Publisher St. Martin's Griffin
      Published 22 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9781250262837
      978-1250262837
      ISBN-10 1250262836
      Also in:
      Psychology Sociology Evolution / Evolutionary biology

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Enriching Publisher''s Weekly

      Excellent and illuminatingWall Street Journal

      In the tradition of Richard Dawkins''s The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani''s The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival.

      Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It's how life progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material to nation states. But given what we know about evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all the genes in the body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkats care for one another's offspring? Why do babbler birds in the Kalahari form colonies in which only a single pair breeds? And how come some reef-dwelling fish punish each other for harming fish fr

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