TY  - BOOK
AU  - Singer,Peter
TI  - A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation
T2  - Darwinism Today Series
SN  - 9780300189995
AV  - HM631.S56 2000eb 
U1  - 320.53/1 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Right and left (Political science)
KW  - Social Darwinism
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- The need for a new foundation -- What is essential to the left? -- 1 Politics and Darwinism -- The right-wing takeover -- Facts and values -- How the left got Darwin wrong -- The dream of perfectibility -- Old tunes keep coming back -- 2 Can the Left Accept a Darwinian View of Human Nature? -- Unpopular ideas -- What is fixed and what is variable in human nature? -- How can reformers leam from Darwin? -- 3 Competition or Cooperation? -- Building a more cooperative society -- The prisoner's dilemma -- Learning from Tit for Tat -- 4 From Cooperation to Altruism? -- The puzzle of the evolution of altruism -- Status for what? -- 5 A Darwinian Left for Today and Beyond -- Notes and References
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ER  -