false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167349690m/22471.jpg 22471 7 Human life, scientific journalist Matt Ridley suggests, is a complex balancing act: we behave with self-interest foremost in mind, but also in ways that do not harm, and sometimes even benefit, others. This behavior, in a strange way, makes us good. It also makes us unique in the animal world, where self-interest is far more pronounced. "The essential virtuousness of human beings is proved not by parallels in the animal kingdom, but by the very lack of convincing animal parallels," Ridley writes. How we got to be so virtuous over millions of years of evolution is the theme of this entertaining book of popular science, which will be of interest to any student of human nature. 1506675 1997 The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation total:190|5:56|4:86|3:35|2:12|1:1| 190 754 336 24 5 0 false false Sun Dec 28 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Apr 22 14:29:18 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 14:31:26 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Apr 03 19:16:22 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 27 14:40:08 -0800 2009
Attempts to answer the question "Why are people nice?"


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