For Whose Benefit? The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation

Lindenfors, Patrik | 2017

Springer, New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50874-0

This book takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our thoughts to the human super-organism.

Cooperation is one of life’s fundamental principles. We are all made of parts – genes, cells, organs, neurons, but also of ideas, or ‘memes’. Our societies too are made of parts – us humans. Is all this cooperation fundamentally the same process?

More information about the book: For Whose Benefit? The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation.

Springer, New York. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-50874-0

This book takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our thoughts to the human super-organism.

Cooperation is one of life’s fundamental principles. We are all made of parts – genes, cells, organs, neurons, but also of ideas, or ‘memes’. Our societies too are made of parts – us humans. Is all this cooperation fundamentally the same process?

More information about the book: For Whose Benefit? The Biological and Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation.