Altruism and Darwinian rationality

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 25 (2):269-270 (2002)
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Rachlin adds to the already long list of proposals for reducing what might be seen as social motivation to some roundabout form of self-interest. But his argument exhibits the usual limitations, and prompts questions about what drives this apparently unending quest.

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