The origins of human cooperation: Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis: A cooperative species. Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN: 978-0-691-15125-0

Biology and Philosophy 28 (5):873-878 (2013)
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Bowles and Gintis argue that recent work in behavioural economics shows that humans have other-regarding preferences, i.e., are not purely self-interested. They seek to explain how these preferences may have evolved using a multi-level version of gene-culture coevolutionary theory. In this review essay I critically examine their main arguments

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Samir Okasha
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