Cautionary Tales – The Man Who Solved Kindness
George Price is on a mission to prove that human kindness is real. He’s seen the latest research suggesting any altruism is ultimately selfish and finds it deeply depressing. George decides to learn the mathematics he needs to prove that research wrong, and throws his career, and life, into the quest for complete kindness.
Further reading
This script relied on Oren Harman’s biography of George Price, The Price of Altruism, and Ullica Segerstrale’s biography of Bill Hamilton, Nature’s Oracle, along with Hamilton’s own autobiographical recollections introducing a collection of his scientific papers, Narrow Roads of Gene Land; Steve Frank’s article in the Journal of Theoretical Biology, George Price’s Contributions to Evolutionary Genetics; and James Schwartz’s obituary of George Price, Death of an Altruist.
