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The survival of the nicest

How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along

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The phrase 'survival of the fittest' conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping others. Klein argues that altruism is in fact our defining characteristic: natural selection favoured those early humans who cooperated in groups. With their survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, a

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The survival of the nicest, Stefan Klein

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Titul
The survival of the nicest
Podtitul
How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavatel
Scribe
Rok vydání
2014
Vazba
měkká
Počet stran
272
ISBN10
1922247626
ISBN13
9781922247629
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Anotace
The phrase 'survival of the fittest' conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that the key to achieving lasting personal and societal success lies in helping others. Klein argues that altruism is in fact our defining characteristic: natural selection favoured those early humans who cooperated in groups. With their survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, a