Summary of: 'Unto Others - The evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior'

Journal of Consciousness Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 185-206

  Sober, Elliott ^a   Wilson, David Sloan ^a  

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