The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
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The moving tale of one man's quest to crack the mystery of altruism, an evolutionary enigma that has haunted scientists since Darwin. The Barnes & Noble Review George Price was a remarkable man who came to judge his own life a failure, and had many reasons to do so. The legacy that may or may not buoy up that judgment consists of a handful of obscure mathematical papers that purport to make contributions to evolutionary biology. Price himself doubted their value, and biologists still use his work, but there remains an ambivalence about its meaning and significance. In The Price of Altruism, Oren Harman tells the story of evolutionary debates over altruism versus selfishness from The Origin of Species to the present day, and interweaves it with biographical material. Both strands are rich and complex, and their interplay creates a stirring book that will reward many readers with an intelligent interest in altruism.
Prologue 1PART ONE1 War or Peace? 92 New York 393 Selections 594 Roaming 855 Friendly Starfish, Selfish Games 1096 Hustling 1397 Solutions 1538 No Easy Way 177PART TWO9 London 19510 "Coincidence" Conversion 22711 "Love" Conversion 25712 Reckonings 28313 Altruism 31114 Last Days 333Epilogue 349Appendix 1 Covariance and Kin Selection 367Appendix 2 The Full Price Equation and Levels of Selection 369Appendix 3 Covariance and the Fundamental Theorem 372Acknowledgments 375Notes 383Index 429
