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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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Titel
The survival of the nicest
Untertitel
How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along
Sprache
Englisch
Autor*innen
Stefan Klein
Verlag
Scribe
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Einband
Paperback
Seitenzahl
272
ISBN10
1922247626
ISBN13
9781922247629
Reihe
Beschreibung
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