Sussman Robert W., Cloninger C. Robert (eds.) Origins of Altruism and Cooperation

Springer Science+Business Media, 2011. — 440 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4419-9519-3 e-ISBN: 978-1-4419-9520-9.This book is derived from a conference entitled “Man the Hunted and the Origin and Nature of Human Sociality, Altruism and Well-Being” held at Washington University, March, 2009. Authors include academics from around the world and across multiple disciplines—anthropology, psychiatry, human evolution, biology, psychology, religion, philosophy, education, and medicine—to focus on the evolution of cooperation, altruism, and sociality and possible factors that led to the evolution of these characteristics in nonhuman primates and humans.Introduction: Cooperation and Altruism
Cooperation, Altruism, and Human Evolution
Altruism and Cooperation Among Nonhuman Primates
Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidencу
Neurological and Hormonal Mechanisms for Cooperation and Altruism
Human Altruism and Cooperation: Needs and the Promotion of Well-Being in Modern Life