Meeting at Grand Central: Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation

A revolutionary approach to the study of cooperation that unites evolutionary biology and the social sciences

From the family to the workplace to the marketplace, every facet of our lives is shaped by cooperative interactions. Yet everywhere we look, we are confronted by proof of how difficult cooperation can be—snarled traffic, polarized politics, overexploited resources, social problems that go ignored. The benefits to oneself of a free ride on the efforts of others mean that collective go...