The Price of Altruism : : George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness
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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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PUBLISHED
New York : W.W. Norton, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: viii, 451 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
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0393067785
9780393067781
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Price, George Robert, -- 1922-1975.
Scientists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Population genetics.
Altruistic behavior in animals.
Geneticists -- United States -- Biography.
Geneticists -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Scientists -- United States -- Biography.