Being human: Conflict: Altruism's midwife

Samuel Bowles
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Samuel Bowles: Samuel Bowles directs the Behavioral Sciences Program at the Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, USA, Italy. He is the author of Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution. bowles@santafe.edu

Nature, 2008, vol. 456, issue 7220, 326-327

Abstract: Generosity and solidarity towards one's own may have emerged only in combination with hostility towards outsiders, says Samuel Bowles.

Date: 2008
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