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"Here biologist Lee Dugatkin outlines four paths to co-operation shared by humans and other animals: family dynamics, reciprocal transactions (or ""tit for tat""), so-called selfish teamwork, and group altruism. He draws on a wealth of examples - from baby-sitting among mongooses and food sharing among vampire bats to co-operation in Hutterite communities and on kibbutzism -to show not only that co-operation exists throughout the animal kingdom, but how an understanding of the natural history of altruism might foster our own best instincts towards our fellow humans."

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[Dugatkin] offers a new way of thinking about human society, as well as a host of amazing stories about the trials and motivations of our animal relatives. -- Lynn Hunt New Scientist

[Dugatkin] offers a new way of thinking about human society, as well as a host of amazing stories about the trials and motivations of our animal relatives.--Lynn Hunt New Scientist Like four pillars of wisdom, Dugatkin describes four different strategies of cooperation...Each chapter is richly illustrated by well-chosen and often illuminating examples of cooperative behaviors.--Laurent Excoffier Nature YDugatkin offers a new way of thinking about human society, as well as a host of amazing stories about the trials and motivations of our animal relatives. -- Lynn Hunt New Scientist

Why do some fish switch sexes to share reproductive chores? Why do organisms from ants to vampire bats regurgitate food for their mates? Dugatkin, a professor from the University of Louisville in the USA, conducts research into evolution and animal behaviour, producing a clear and concise work for both scientists and the general reader. His second book on the evolutionary history of cooperation, he explores some of the subject's puzzles and paradoxes, using wonderful examples from nature and his own experience, drawing parallels between the insect/animal world and that of the human. Science writing at its best. (Kirkus UK)

�Dugatkin� offers a new way of thinking about human society, as well as a host of amazing stories about the trials and motivations of our animal relatives. -- Lynn Hunt New Scientist Like four pillars of wisdom, Dugatkin describes four different strategies of cooperation...Each chapter is richly illustrated by well-chosen and often illuminating examples of cooperative behaviors.--Laurent Excoffier Nature [Dugatkin] offers a new way of thinking about human society, as well as a host of amazing stories about the trials and motivations of our animal relatives.--Lynn Hunt New Scientist

[Dugatkin] offers a new way of thinking about human society, as well as a host of amazing stories about the trials and motivations of our animal relatives.--Lynn Hunt New Scientist

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