Oren Harman on The Price Of Altruism: George Price and The Search For The Origins Of Kindness

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Kindness is kindness only if it is meant to be so. Of course the brain is an evolved organ. But psychological altruism, the kind we talk about when we are thinking of human affairs, is entirely independent from biological altruism, or the kind that confers fitness on its bearer.

Oren Harman is a writer and a professor of the history of science at Bar Ilan University in Israel. He is best known as the author of several critically ac...