Table of Contents

Part I.  Cooperation, Altruism and Human Evolution.- Chapter 1-Introduction: Altruism and Cooperation.- Chapter 2. Part 1 Introduction.-Chapter 3. The Influence of Predation on Primate and Early Human Evolution: Impetus for Cooperation.- Chapter 4. Born to cooperate? Altruism as exaptation, and the evolution of human sociality.- Chapter 5.  The Phylogenesis of Human Personality:Identifying the Precursors of Cooperation, Altruism, and Well-Being.- Part II.  Altruism and Cooperation Among Non-human Primates.- Chapter 6. Cooperation and the Evolution of Social Living: Moving Beyond the Constraints andImplications of Misleading Dogma: Introduction Section II.- Chapter 7. Primates, Niche Construction, and Social Complexity: The Roles of Social Cooperation and Altruism.- Chapter 8. Collective Action and Male Affiliation in Howler Monkeys (Alouatta caraya).- Chapter 9. Mechanisms of Cohesion in Black Howler Monkeys.- Chapter 10. Social Plasticity and Demographic Variation in Primates.- Part III.   Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidence.- Chapter 11.  Altruism and Cooperation Among Humans: The Ethnographic Evidence: Introduction.- Chapter 12. Violence Reduction among the Gebusi of Papua New Guinea – and Across Humanity.- Chapter 13. Human Nature: The Nomadic Forager Model.- Chapter 14. Born to Live: Challenging Killer Myths.- Chapter 15. Notes toward a human nature for the third Millennium.- Part IV.  Neurological and hormonal mechanisms for cooperation and altruism.- Chapter 16. Behavior meets Neuroscience: Achievements, Prospects, and Complexity: Introduction to Section 4.- Chapter 17. The Neurobiology of Cooperation and Altruism.- Chapter 18. Behavioral and Neuroendocrine Interactions in Affiliation.- Chapter 19. Early Social Experience and the Ontogenesis of Emotion Regulatory Behavior in Children.- Part V.  Human Altruism and Cooperation: Needs and the Promotion of Well-being in Modern Life.- Chapter 20:Introduction.- Chapter 21. Altruism as an Aspect of Relational Consciousness and how Culture inhibits it.- Chapter 22. Hope Rekindled: Well-Being, Humanism, and Education.- Chapter 23. Promoting Well-Being in Health Care.- Chapter 24. Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Distinction: Promotion of Transdisciplinary Research (Overview of the Institute of Medicine Report on Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment).

Reviews

From the reviews: "The book does three things that many of the other books on this subject don't do: it gives some background about altruism and cooperation in specific non-human primate species, it reviews the neuroscience behind these behaviors, and it shows the practical applications of altruism and cooperation in such things as education and healthcare. ... it is a convenient source for a researcher or someone who is reviewing the literature. ... It would be a useful contribution to a university library." (Jay R. Feierman, ESSSAT-News, Vol. 22 (2), June, 2012)