Book 2010

The price of altruism

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Publisher: W.W. Norton
Language: English
Published: 2010

Altruistic behavior in animals
Population genetics
Geneticists
Biography
Scientists
Altruism
Scientists, biography
Genetics

Describes the intellectual journey of eccentric American genius George Price, who tried to answer the evolutionary riddle of why people are nice, and eventually gave away all his belongings and took his own life in a squatter's flat.