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Nature 440, 744-745 (6 April 2006) | doi:10.1038/440744b; Published online 5 April 2006
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The puzzle of cooperation
Andrew M. Colman1
BOOK REVIEWED-Moral Sentiments and Material Interests: The Foundations of Cooperation in Economic Life
edited by Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd & Ernst Fehr
MIT Press: 2005. 404 pp. $50, £32.95
Robert May began his last presidential address to the Royal Society on 30 November 2005 by saying: "The most important unanswered question in evolutionary biology, and more generally in the social sciences, is how cooperative behaviour evolved and can be maintained in human or other animal groups and societies". For example, birds often emit alarm calls when they spot predators, but how could such behaviour have evolved?
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