Origins of Altruism and Cooperation

Chapter 1 Introduction: Altruism and Cooperation

Robert W. Sussman and C. Robert Cloninger

Part I. Cooperation, Altruism and Human Evolution

Chapter 2 Part 1 Introduction.

Ian Tattersall

Chapter 3. The Influence of Predation on Primate and Early Human Evolution: Impetus for Cooperation.

Donna Hart and Robert W. Sussman

Chapter 4. Born to cooperate? Altruism as exaptation, and the evolution of human sociality.

Telmo Pievani

Chapter 5. The Phylogenesis of Human Personality:Identifying the Precursors of Cooperation, Altruism, and Well-Being

C. Robert Cloninger and Sita Kedia

Part II. Altruism and Cooperation Among Non-human Primates

Chapter 6. Cooperation and the Evolution of Social Living: Moving Beyond the Constraints andImplications of Misleading Dogma: Introduction Section II.

Marc Bekoff

Chapter 7. Primates, Niche Construction, and Social Complexity: The Roles of Social Cooperation and Altruism

Katherine C. MacKinnon and Agustin Fuentes,

Chapter 8. Collective Action and Male Affiliation in Howler Monkeys (Alouatta caraya)

Paul A. Garber and Martin K. Kowalewski

Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Cohesion in Black Howler Monkeys.

Mary S. M. Pavelka

Chapter 10. Social Plasticity and Demographic Variation in Primates.

Karen B. Strier

Part III. Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidence

Chapter 11. Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidence: Introduction.

Peter Benson

Chapter 12. Violence Reduction among the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea - and Across Humanity.

Bruce M. Knauft

Chapter 13. Human Nature: The Nomadic Forager Model.

Douglas P. Fry

Chapter 14. Born to Live: Challenging Killer Myths.

R. Brian Ferguson

Chapter 15. Notes toward a human nature for the third Millennium.

Walter Goldschmidt

Part IV. Neurological and hormonal mechanisms for cooperation and altruism

Chapter 16. Behavior meets Neuroscience: Achievements, Prospects, and Complexity: Introduction to Section 4.

Jane Phillips-Conroy

Chapter 17. The Neurobiology of Cooperation and Altruism.

James K. Rilling

Chapter 18. Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Interactions in Affiliation.

Charles T. Snowdon

Chapter 19. Early Social Experience and the Ontogenesis of Emotion Regulatory Behavior in Children.

Seth D. Pollak

Part V. Human Altruism and Cooperation: Needs and the Promotion of Well-being in Modern Life

Chapter 20: Introduction.

J.E. Mezzich

Chapter 22. Hope Rekindled: Well-Being, Humanism, and Education.

Kevin Cloninger

Chapter 23. Promoting Well-Being in Health Care.

Lauren E. Munsch and Helen Herrman

Chapter 24. Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Distinction: Promotion of Transdisciplinary Research (Overview of the Institute of Medicine Report on Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment)

Dan G. Blazer