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Science 14 May 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5673, pp. 964 - 965
DOI: 10.1126/science.1095994
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BEHAVIORAL EVOLUTION:
Mutual Benefits at All Levels of Life

A review by Robert Trivers

Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation
Peter Hammerstein, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 499 pp. $45, £29.95. ISBN 0-262-08326-4.

In this volume, which grew out of a Dahlem Workshop, researchers from a wide range of fields--including biology, anthropology, economics, mathematics, political science, primatology, and psychology--discuss the origins, evolution, and cultural mechanisms of cooperation.
The reviewer is in the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University, 131 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1414, USA. E-mail: trivers{at}rci.rutgers.edu

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