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# SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition

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    Definitely Worth Reading
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States on June 26, 2017*

I enjoyed reading the book and its many ideas regarding the evolution of cooperation.  I'm a bit of a Rip Van Winkle.  Nearly four decades ago I had courses that assigned George Williams book, Adaptation and Natural Selection, and William D. Hamilton's classic articles.  I thought that issues were pretty well settled.  I recall reading J.D. Wilson's book on group selection.  Intuition (not always reliable) tells me yes, it can happen, but do you really expect to find clear examples of it out there in nature?  There's a political scientist, Peter Corning, who has written his entire career about what he calls the "synergy" hypothesis;  I think it's a better word since it doesn't carry a lot of baggage that the word cooperation does.  Those who read Nowak should also read Corning's books.  Political scientists deal with power--the capacity to get others to do things that they would not otherwise do.  It's sources are four:  authority, coercion, persuasion, and inducements.  The "games" that should be of most interest to political scientists are asymmetric.  I'd like to see more research of the kind that Nowak and his team have done on asymmetric games.  Policy analysts are only now starting to apply evolutionary principles to the design of public policy in ways that support, as Pinker called it, the "better angels of our nature."  The book is definitely worth reading.  Are the arguments right?  Readers will have to sift through the evidence and decide on their own.

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    Insightful and challenging
  

*by D***O on Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2014*

Martin Nowak demonstrates in a variety of ways the patterns of cooperative behavior in nature in general and Homo sapiens in particular.  The data reveal that groups of individuals who cooperate with each other are more successful in survival and thus in natural selection than groups consisting of competitors.  Humans have evolved in such a way as to foster our ability to cooperate, which is one of the reasons that we are so successful as a species.  My communicating my opinion of his work to other potential readers is an example of this cooperative instinct and our ability to cooperate very effectively through language.  On the other hand groups always have cheaters who try to profit from the group effort without contributing to it.  Cooperation in groups changes in cycles: it increases to the point that cheaters can do so with relative ease but others find out about it.  Language is a major tool for rooting out cheaters.  After a while the cooperative behavior in the group disintegrates and the group has to start all over again.  Nowak ends the book with an enigmatic chapter that suggests that humanity can transcend this vicious cycle through the victory of altruistic love.

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    flexible mathematics...
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014*

Very clever book from a modern mathematician (sometimes too self-convinced), who studies complex evolutionary dynamics through formal modeling, with considerable results. He surprises for practical outcomes coming from such intricate abstractions, what makes Nowak a leader in the field of human cooperation. He innovates quite a bit in understanding natural selection, against the mainstream of “Darwinism” based on selfish genes and others suppositions guided by raw individual competition. Bright, creative mind (he comes form Austria, Vienna), he carries the spirit of math geniuses from Europa, where math combines very well with good academic formation, fine culture and epistemological good sense. I learned a lot from him.

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