{"id":16186,"date":"2013-03-30T09:40:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T14:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16186"},"modified":"2013-03-30T09:40:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T14:40:56","slug":"the-altruism-equation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/30\/the-altruism-equation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Altruism Equation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Skeptically Speaking has this:<\/p>\n

This week. we\u2019re looking at what science has to say about the origins of selfless \u2013 and even self-sacrificing \u2013 behavior. We\u2019ll speak to biology professor Lee Alan Dugatkin, about his book The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness. And we\u2019ll discuss altruism from a neurological perspective, with Duke University Neuroscientist Steve Chang, whose research in monkeys looks at how their brains process and record helpful inclinations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Skeptically Speaking has this: This week. we\u2019re looking at what science has to say about the origins of selfless \u2013 and even self-sacrificing \u2013 behavior. We\u2019ll speak to biology professor Lee Alan Dugatkin, about his book The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness. And we\u2019ll discuss altruism from a neurological perspective, … Continue reading The Altruism Equation<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4d4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}