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Science 11 September 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5383, pp. 1619 - 1621
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5383.1619
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EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOR:
Are We Selfish, Are We Nice, or Are We Nice Because We Are Selfish?

A review by Leonard Nunney

Unto Others The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
Elliott Sober and David Sloan Wilson
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998. 406 pp. $29.95. ISBN 0-674-93046-0.

The authors of Unto Others present an evolutionary argument for unselfish behavior as the product of group selection, coupled with a "completely different" section on psychological altruism. They stress a pluralistic approach to altruism, and to levels of selection. The reviewer finds the book more focused on the debates than on the science.
The author is in the Department of Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. E-mail: Nunney{at}citrus.ucr.edu

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