Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans

Bibliographic Collection:

Anthropogeny

Publication Type: Book

Authors: Dugatkin, Lee Alan

Year of Publication: 2000

Edition: 1st Ed.

Number of Pages: 208

Publisher: Harvard University Press

City: Cambridge

Publication Language: eng

ISBN Number: 0674001672

Keywords: Animal, Animal behavior, Behavior, Cooperativeness, Evolution., Social behaviorin animals

Abstract:

Here biologist Lee Dugatkin outlines four paths to cooperation 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 babysitting among mongooses and food sharing among vampire bats to cooperation in Hutterite communities and on kibbutzim--to show not only that cooperation exists throughout the animal kingdom, but how an understanding of the natural history of altruism might foster our own best instincts toward our fellow humans.

URL: http://lccn.loc.gov/98027768

Label: 1999

Export:

UCSD Library URL:

http://roger.ucsd.edu/record=b3798146~S9