Communicative genes and the evolution of empathy. Selfish and social emotions as voices of selfish and social genes

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 807, Issue , 1997, Pages 481-483

  Buck, Ross ^a   Ginsburg, Benson ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EMOTION; EMPATHY; EVOLUTION; GENE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; NEUROCHEMISTRY;

EID: 0030947822     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51944.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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2. BUCK, R. & B. GINSBURG. 1991. Emotional communication and altruism: The communicative gene hypothesis. In Altruism. Review of Personality and Social Psychology., Vol. 12. M. Clark, Ed.: 149-175. Sage Publications, Newbury Park, CA.
3. BUCK, R. & B. GINSBURG. 1997. Communicative genes and the evolution of empathy. In Empathic Accuracy. W. Ickes, Ed. Guilford Press. New York. In press.