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The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World

by Nichola Raihani

Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But given what we know about the mechanisms of evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all that the genes i

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Publication date

Aug 31, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9781250262820