We send money to help famine victims halfway around the world. We campaign to save whales and oceans. We stay up all night to comfort a friend with a broken rel

One of the "Best Books of 2011" from the Center for Optimal Adult Development We send money to help famine victims halfway around the world. We campaign to save

Argues that altruism is an inherent factor of group functionality and discusses how studying group function can promote positive changes to the human condition.

"Unlike any other study in its field, The Altruistic Brain synthesizes into one theory the most important research into how and why - by purely physical mechani

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. Altho