Download or read book Survival of the Friendliest written by Brian Hare and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness “Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring—and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time.”—Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened? Since Charles Darwin wrote about “evolutionary fitness,” the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the “self-domestication theory,” Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive. But this gift for friendliness came at a cost. Just as a mother bear is most dangerous around her cubs, we are at our most dangerous when someone we love is threatened by an “outsider.” The threatening outsider is demoted to sub-human, fair game for our worst instincts. Hare’s groundbreaking research, developed in close coordination with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution, reveals that the same traits that make us the most tolerant species on the planet also make us the cruelest. Survival of the Friendliest offers us a new way to look at our cultural as well as cognitive evolution and sends a clear message: In order to survive and even to flourish, we need to expand our definition of who belongs.

Download or read book Survival Strategies written by Raghavendra Gadagkar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Only in recent years have biologists and ethologists begun to apply careful evolutionary thinking to the study of animal societies--and with spectacular results. This book presents the choicest of these findings, illustrated with both photographs and explanatory diagrams.

Download or read book Survival Strategies written by Raghavendra Gadagkar and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Evolution of Cooperation written by Robert Axelrod and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.

Download or read book The Social Instinct written by Nichola Raihani and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Enriching" —Publisher's Weekly "Excellent and illuminating"—Wall Street Journal In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how life progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material to nation states. But given what we know about evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin, when on a Darwinian level, all the genes in the body care about is being passed on to the next generation? Why do meerkats care for one another’s offspring? Why do babbler birds in the Kalahari form colonies in which only a single pair breeds? And how come some reef-dwelling fish punish each other for harming fish from another species? A biologist by training, Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves. She reveals that the species that exhibit cooperative behaviour most similar to our own tend not to be other apes; they are birds, insects, and fish, occupying far more distant branches of the evolutionary tree. By understanding the problems they face, and how they cooperate to solve them, we can glimpse how human cooperation first evolved. And we can also understand what it is about the way we cooperate that makes us so distinctive–and so successful.

Download or read book Co operative Growth and Survival written by Christopher S. Axworthy and published by Saskatoon : Co-operative College of Canada. This book was released on 1986 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Technological Cooperation for Survival written by William C. Norris and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Choose Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Cooperative Species written by Samuel Bowles and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin. In A Cooperative Species, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis--pioneers in the new experimental and evolutionary science of human behavior--show that the central issue is not why selfish people act generously, but instead how genetic and cultural evolution has produced a species in which substantial numbers make sacrifices to uphold ethical norms and to help even total strangers. The authors describe how, for thousands of generations, cooperation with fellow group members has been essential to survival. Groups that created institutions to protect the civic-minded from exploitation by the selfish flourished and prevailed in conflicts with less cooperative groups. Key to this process was the evolution of social emotions such as shame and guilt, and our capacity to internalize social norms so that acting ethically became a personal goal rather than simply a prudent way to avoid punishment. Using experimental, archaeological, genetic, and ethnographic data to calibrate models of the coevolution of genes and culture as well as prehistoric warfare and other forms of group competition, A Cooperative Species provides a compelling and novel account of how humans came to be moral and cooperative.

Download or read book Co operation written by and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Team Human written by Douglas Rushkoff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A provocative, exciting, and important rallying cry to reassert our human spirit of community and teamwork.”—Walter Isaacson Team Human is a manifesto—a fiery distillation of preeminent digital theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s most urgent thoughts on civilization and human nature. In one hundred lean and incisive statements, he argues that we are essentially social creatures, and that we achieve our greatest aspirations when we work together—not as individuals. Yet today society is threatened by a vast antihuman infrastructure that undermines our ability to connect. Money, once a means of exchange, is now a means of exploitation; education, conceived as way to elevate the working class, has become another assembly line; and the internet has only further divided us into increasingly atomized and radicalized groups. Team Human delivers a call to arms. If we are to resist and survive these destructive forces, we must recognize that being human is a team sport. In Rushkoff’s own words: “Being social may be the whole point.” Harnessing wide-ranging research on human evolution, biology, and psychology, Rushkoff shows that when we work together we realize greater happiness, productivity, and peace. If we can find the others who understand this fundamental truth and reassert our humanity—together—we can make the world a better place to be human.

Download or read book Win Win Survival Communities written by Marshall Masters and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for optimal reading comforts, this special edition offers larger 13 pt type for old eyes and extra line spacing for highlighting and notes. It also features heavier paper and a smaller desktop trim size for improved ease of handling. A New Survival Strategy Prepping is about bullets, beans, and bunkers. After life as-we-know-it ceases to exist, where will this survival strategy get you? You'll be huddling in a cold concrete box, eating dead food, and living in fear of the future. Is there a better way? Yes, it is called a win-win survival community, and for the first time in history, technology and finance make it possible. This book offers a completely new survival plan, a road map to win-win success for the common man. Continuity of life is the goal, and the most significant benefit of this strategy is that you're cruising over speed bumps as others hit a wall. Why? Because you prepared for cooperation - not confrontation. A Survival Plan for the Common Man It all starts with a proven strategy for success. You surround yourself with good people, those you can trust to protect you. This is why this plan is precisely a win for the haves and the have-nots alike. Yes, strength in numbers and technology are essential, but comradery is above all else. If one imagines a win-win community as a sturdy concrete structure, comradery is the mortar that unites the bricks, hope for the future. With such strength, we can survive to colonize, and in turn colonize to survive. This longer range view gives win-win families the will to endure the worst that man and nature can throw at them. Consequently, in good times and in bad, they will arise each morning, refreshed by the eternal hope that their progeny will survive, thrive, and go to the stars as pioneers. This book walks you through the real estate development process from inception to escrow closing. It includes detailed process instructions for designing, building, and shielding underground concrete domes for survival. Domes are the most survivable type of concrete structure known to man.

Download or read book The Survival of Voluntary Co operation written by William Pascoe Watkins and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Win Win Survival Communities written by Marshall Masters and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for optimal reading comforts, this special edition offers larger 13 pt type for old eyes and extra line spacing for highlighting and notes. It also features heavier paper and a smaller desktop trim size for improved ease of handling. A New Survival Strategy Prepping is about bullets, beans, and bunkers. After life as-we-know-it ceases to exist, where will this survival strategy get you? You'll be huddling in a cold concrete box, eating dead food, and living in fear of the future. Is there a better way? Yes, it is called a win-win survival community, and for the first time in history, technology and finance make it possible. This book offers a completely new survival plan, a road map to win-win success for the common man. Continuity of life is the goal, and the most significant benefit of this strategy is that you're cruising over speed bumps as others hit a wall. Why? Because you prepared for cooperation - not confrontation. A Survival Plan for the Common Man It all starts with a proven strategy for success. You surround yourself with good people, those you can trust to protect you. This is why this plan is precisely a win for the haves and the have-nots alike. Yes, strength in numbers and technology are essential, but comradery is above all else. If one imagines a win-win community as a sturdy concrete structure, comradery is the mortar that unites the bricks, hope for the future. With such strength, we can survive to colonize, and in turn colonize to survive. This longer range view gives win-win families the will to endure the worst that man and nature can throw at them. Consequently, in good times and in bad, they will arise each morning, refreshed by the eternal hope that their progeny will survive, thrive, and go to the stars as pioneers. This book walks you through the real estate development process from inception to escrow closing. It includes detailed process instructions for designing, building, and shielding underground concrete domes for survival. Domes are the most survivable type of concrete structure known to man.

Download or read book Survive written by Jerry Pannone and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-12-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Jerry, I read through your book and was bowled over by its breadth and depth, and by the scholarship in it, and by the clarity and fluency in your writing. Excellent!' Rick Hanson Ph.D., New York Times bestselling author of Buddha’s Brain, and UC Berkeley psychology professor Although the concept of survival is evident in a biological sense, it expands far beyond simple physical survival for the human being. The questions of psychological, emotional, intellectual and spiritual survival, as well as the overriding question of identity all play a role. Who is the ‘me' that is fighting to survive? That is the existential question we struggle consciously or unconsciously to address.

Download or read book Cooperation written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Soul of the Marionette written by John Gray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Originally published in 2015 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, Great Britain"--Title page verso.