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A Darwinian Left : Politics, Evolution and Cooperation.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Darwinism Today SeriesPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000Copyright date: ©2000Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (81 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300189995
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Darwinian LeftDDC classification:
  • 320.53/1
LOC classification:
  • HM631.S56 2000eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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