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The PRICE of ALTRUISM The PRICE of ALTRUISM George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness OREN HARMAN W. W. NORTON NEW YORK LONDON Copyright © 2010 by Oren Harman All rights reserved Photograph credits: frontmatter, Library of Congress; part 1 (Kropotkin), Library of Congress; chapter 1 (George and Edison Price), courtesy of the Price family; chapter 1 (George, Alice, and Edison Price), courtesy of the Price family; chapter 2 (Fisher), Library of Congress; chapter 2 (Haldane), Raphael Falk; chapter 3 (George and Julia Price), courtesy of the Price family; chapter 3 (Price family), courtesy of the Price family; chapter 4 (von Neumann), Library of Congress; chapter 4 (Allee), University of Chicago Library; chapter 5, Minneapolis Star Tribune; chapter 6 (Smith), University of Sussex; chapter 6 (Hamilton), Photo Researchers, Inc.; chapter 7, courtesy of the Price family; part 2, Oren Harman; chapter 9, Nature; chapter 10, courtesy of the Price family; chapter 11, courtesy of the Price family; chapter 12, Owen Gilbert; chapter 13, courtesy of the Price family; chapter 14, Oren Harman. For information about permission to reproduce selections from this book, write to Permissions, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10110 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Harman, Oren Solomon. The price of altruism: George Price and the search for the origins of kindness / Oren Harman.—1st American ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN: 978-0-393-07923-4 1. Price, George Robert, 1922–1975. 2. Geneticists—United States—Biography. 3. Geneticists—Great Britain—Biography. 4. Scientists—United States— Biography. 5. Scientists—Great Britain—Biography. 6. Population genetics. 7. Altruistic behavior in animals. I. Title. QH429.2.P75H37 2010 576.5092—dc22 [B] 2010011934 W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. 500 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10110 www.wwnorton.com W. W. Norton & Company Ltd. Castle House, 75/76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QT To Danzi and Mishy with love Contents Prologue PART ONE 1. War or Peace? 2. New York 3. Selections 4. Roaming 5. Friendly Starfish, Selfish Games 6. Hustling 7. Solutions 8. No Easy Way PART TWO 9. London 10. “Coincidence” Conversion 11. “Love” Conversion 12. Reckonings 13. Altruism 14. Last Days Epilogue Appendix 1: Covariance and Kin Selection Appendix 2: The Full Price Equation and Levels of Selection Appendix 3: Covariance and the Fundamental Theorem Acknowledgments Notes The PRICE of ALTRUISM
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