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

Download or Read eBook The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness PDF written by Oren Harman and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
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ISBN-10 : 9780393339994
ISBN-13 : 0393339998
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Book Synopsis The Price of Altruism: George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness by : Oren Harman

Book excerpt: 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.


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