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Social Instinct, The: How Cooperation Shaped the World

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Social Instinct, The: How Cooperation Shaped the World

SKU: 9781787332058 Category: Product ID: 184649

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Title: Social Instinct, The: How Cooperation Shaped the World
Author: RAIHANI NICHOLA
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2021
Imprint: JONATHAN CAPE
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active

Why cooperate? This may be the most important scientific question we have ever, and will
ever, face. The science of cooperation tells us not only how we got here, but also where we
might end up. Cooperation explains how strands of DNA gave rise to modern-day nation
states. It defines our extraordinary ecological success as well as many of the most
surprising features of what make us human: not only why we live in families, why we have
grandmothers and why women experience the menopause, but also why we become
paranoid and jealous, and why we cheat. Nichola Raihani also introduces us to other
species who, like us, live and work together. From the pied babblers of the Kalahari to the
cleaner fish of the Great Barrier Reef, they happen to be some of the most fascinating and
extraordinarily successful species on this planet. What do we have in common with these
other species, and what is it that sets us apart?Written at a time of global pandemic, when
the challenges and importance of cooperation have never been greater, The Social Instinct
is an exhilarating, far-reaching and thought-provoking journey through all life on Earth, with
profound insights into what makes us human and how our societies work.

ISBN: 9781787332058
Pages: 288