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eBook details
- Title: Survival of the Nicest
- Author : Stefan Klein
- Release Date : January 21, 2014
- Genre: Science & Nature,Books,Nonfiction,Philosophy,Life Sciences,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 3167 KB
Description
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of āsurvival of the fittestāāand invites us all to think and act more altruistically
The phrase āsurvival of the fittestā conjures an image of the most cutthroat individuals rising to the top. But Stefan Klein, author of the #1 international bestseller The Science of Happiness, makes the startling assertion that altruism is the key to lasting personal and societal success. In fact, altruism defines us: Natural selection favored those early humans who cooperated in groups, and with survival more assured, our altruistic ancestors were free to devote brainpower to developing intelligence, language, and cultureāour very humanity.
Kleinās groundbreaking findings lead him to a vexing question: If weāre really hard-wired to act for one anotherās benefit, why arenāt we all getting along? He believes weāve learned to mistrust our instincts because success is so often attributed to selfish ambition, and with an extraordinary array of materialācurrent research on genetics and the brain, economics, social psychology, behavioral and anthropological experiments, history, and modern cultureāhe makes the case that generosity for its own sake remains the best way to thrive.