Fortunately, we don’t hear much about “selfish genes” anymore. Buried by a mass of fresh data, the idea that behavior is invariably self-serving has died an inglorious death. Science has confirmed that cooperation is our species’s first and foremost inclination, at least with members of the in-group, so much so that a 2011 book about human behavior by Martin Nowak was entitled SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed.
