SuperCooperators

Martin Nowack, Roger Highfield

Canongate Books, Mar 17, 2011 - Social Science - 256 pages

Beyond The Survival of the Fittest: Why Cooperation, not Competition, is the Key to Life If life is about survival of the fittest, then why would we risk our own life to jump into a river to save a stranger? Some people argue that issues such as charity, fairness, forgiveness and cooperation are evolutionary loose ends, side issues that are of little consequence. But as Harvard's celebrated evolutionary biologist Martin Nowak explains in this groundbreaking and controversial book, cooperation is central to the four-billion-year-old puzzle of life. Indeed, it is cooperation not competition that is the defining human trait.

About the author

Roger Highfield is science editor of The Daily Telegraph and a regular broadcaster on the BBC. He lives in London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: SuperCooperators
• Authors: Martin Nowack, Roger Highfield
• Publisher: Canongate Books, 2011
• ISBN: 0857860453, 9780857860453
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Science / General; Social Science / Popular Culture