Oren Harman - The Price Of Altruism

Jul 5 2010 7:00 pm
Jul 5 2010 8:00 pm
If genes are selfish and each individual is programmed to survive and reproduce at nearly any cost, how is it that altruism exists? Harman, a professor of the history of science at Bar Ilan University,  explores this question by profiling George Price, the physical chemist who developed new ideas of evolutionary and game theory; trying to help the homeless, Price eventually lost everything, and committed suicide.

The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness (Hardcover)

By Oren Harman
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ISBN-13: 9780393067781
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company, 6/2010
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