The origins of virtue
human instincts and the evolution of cooperation
Evolutionary Ethics
Sociobiology
Altruism
Genetic psychology
Human Development
Social evolution
Cooperation
Helping behavior
Human evolution
Evolution (Biology)
Biological Evolution
Social change
Long Now Manual for Civilization
If evolution by natural selection relentlessly favors self-interest, why do human beings live in complex societies and show so much cooperative spirit? In The Origins of Virtue, Matt Ridley, a zoologist and former American editor of the Economist, shows that recent research in a number of fields has…
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