Oren Harman, who has a doctorate from Oxford University, is the Chair of the Graduate Program in Science Technology and Society at Bar Ilan University and a professor of the history of science. He is the author of The Man Who Invented the Chromosome, a documentary film maker, and a frequent contributor to The New Republic. He lives in Tel Aviv and New York.
The moving tale of one man's quest to crack the mystery of altruism, an evolutionary enigma that has haunted scientists since Darwin.
Survival of the fittest or survival of the nicest?
Since the dawn of time man has contemplated the mystery of altruism, but it was Darwin who posed the question most starkly. From the selfless ant to the stinging bee to the man laying down his life for a stranger, evolution has yielded a goodness that in theory should never be.
Set against the sweeping tale of 150 years of scientific attempts to explain kindness, The Price of Altruism tells for the first time the moving story of the eccentric American genius George Price (1922–1975), as he strives to answer evolution's greatest riddle. An original and penetrating picture of twentieth century thought, it is also a deeply personal journey. From the heights of the Manhattan Project to the inspired equation that explains altruism to the depths of homelessness and despair, Price's life embodies the paradoxes of Darwin’s enigma. His tragic suicide in a squatter’s flat, among the vagabonds to whom he gave all his possessions, provides the ultimate contemplation on the possibility of genuine benevolence.
發表於2024-11-25
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文:魯鼕旭 為什麼阿米巴蟲會犧牲自己的生命成全同伴?為什麼負責放哨的瞪羚會在獅子齣現時上下跳動、冒著生命危險警告其他瞪羚? 從達爾文主義的角度看,利他行為是進化論無法解釋的反常現象。降低生物適應性的利他行為怎麼可能會被自然選擇保存下來呢? 為瞭迴答這個問題,達爾文...
評分 評分 評分文:魯鼕旭 為什麼阿米巴蟲會犧牲自己的生命成全同伴?為什麼負責放哨的瞪羚會在獅子齣現時上下跳動、冒著生命危險警告其他瞪羚? 從達爾文主義的角度看,利他行為是進化論無法解釋的反常現象。降低生物適應性的利他行為怎麼可能會被自然選擇保存下來呢? 為瞭迴答這個問題,達爾文...
評分圖書標籤: 科普 社科 利他主義 傳記 altruism Evolution 英文原版 科學史
Last days. What a life. Like one said, he took Christianity too seriously. Ps. altruistic (kind) behavior is not truly selfless and is instead an adaptation that organisms have in order to promote their own genetic heritage.
評分Last days. What a life. Like one said, he took Christianity too seriously. Ps. altruistic (kind) behavior is not truly selfless and is instead an adaptation that organisms have in order to promote their own genetic heritage.
評分Last days. What a life. Like one said, he took Christianity too seriously. Ps. altruistic (kind) behavior is not truly selfless and is instead an adaptation that organisms have in order to promote their own genetic heritage.
評分Last days. What a life. Like one said, he took Christianity too seriously. Ps. altruistic (kind) behavior is not truly selfless and is instead an adaptation that organisms have in order to promote their own genetic heritage.
評分太失望瞭,一是真的沒有學到什麼,二是作者的野心和文筆太不符瞭,內容各種淩亂
The Price of Altruism 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載