SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed

"Exactly the message we need to counter the mythology of the 'rugged individual'" (Bill Moyers, Progressive Reader).

Martin Nowak, one of the world's experts on evolution and game theory, working here with bestselling science writer Roger Highfield, turns an important aspect of evolutionary theory on its head to explain why cooperation, not competition, has always been the key to the evolution of complexity. In his first book written for a wide audience, this hugely influential scientist exp...