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2014 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Altruism and Identity

Author : Burton Voorhees

Published in: ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

This paper reviews some of the major approaches to the evolution of altruism and cooperation, addressing the question of how fitness reducing behaviors could evolve and become fixed in a population. An often overlooked important point is that human psychology must be taken into account, in particular the way that personal identity is tied to adherence to social and cultural norms and approved behaviors resulting in an identification of personal biological survival with a social group and the markers of that group.

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Metadata
Title
Altruism and Identity
Author
Burton Voorhees
Copyright Year
2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Book
ISCS 2013: Interdisciplinary Symposium on Complex Systems

Print ISBN: 978-3-642-45437-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-642-45438-7

Copyright Year: 2014

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45438-7_33

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