I'm Doing It So I Could Be on the List

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i like the effect of altraism movement, ind people like peter singer that have set up these foundations. But it's actually really interesting that when loads of how people prefer to give is god to ways of giving that are er, indicate something about our underlying pro social motivation. For example, people generally think that donating time rather than money is a more morally superior thing to do. I mean, if you are a city banker, or you're really earning mega money, just eep on working and give money to the charity. Don't waste one of your highly paid days at work to go and work in a soup kitchen because you can do more good by just giving a day's

Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But given what we know about the mechanisms of evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin? A biologist by training, Nichola Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves. She reveals that the species that exhibit cooperative behavior — teaching, helping, grooming, and self-sacrifice — most similar to our own tend not to be other apes; they are birds, insects, and fish, occupying far more distant branches of the evolutionary tree. By understanding the problems they face, and how they cooperate to solve them, we can glimpse how human cooperation first evolved. And we can also understand what it is about the way we cooperate that has made humans so distinctive and so successful.