The Price Of Altruism : George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness Condition:Like New Joanna Ludlam

Joanna Ludlam

by the acclaimed author of The Trip to Echo Spring

comes the paperback edition of his classic bestseller

Consists of: Nineteen Eighty-Four (Well Read)

he finds an atmosphere not of mourning but of mutual suspicion

The Price Of Altruism : George Price and the Search for the Origins of Kindness Condition:Like New Joanna LudlamWhen George Price died in January 1975, his funeral in London was attended by five homeless men. Alongside them were Bill Hamilton and John Maynard Smith, two distinguished British evolutionary biologists. All seven men had come to mourn an eccentric American genius who helped to unpick the riddle of how altruism, or unselfish concern for the welfare of others, could exist in a world driven by survival of the fittest and who committed suicide aged