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- Title
Strange bedfellows: A Russian prince, A Scottish Economist, and the role of empathy in early theories for the evolution of cooperation.
- Authors
Dugatkin, Lee Alan
- Abstract
From 1888 to his death in 1921, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin forced biologists to ask themselves whether natural selection inevitably led to a dog-eat-dog world, or whether pro-social behavior could also be a product of the evolutionary process. In this historical vignette, I focus on Kropotkin's theory of "mutual aid," with emphasis on the role that empathy played in that theory, and the unexpected source--economist Adam Smith's 1759 book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments--of Kropotkin's ideas on empathy in animals.
- Subjects
KROPOTKIN, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz, 1842-1921; BIOLOGISTS; DEATH &; burial of kings &; rulers; MUTUAL aid; EMPATHY; INTERPERSONAL relations
- Publication
Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular & Developmental Evolution, 2013, Vol 320B, Issue 7, p407
- ISSN
1552-5007
- Publication type
Article