Politics, Evolution and Cooperation.
Part of the 'Darwinism Today' series.
Humans are born cooperators. So why is left-wing politics so contemptuous of biological theories of behaviour, leaving the right to claim Darwinism as its own?
In this ground-breaking book, Peter Singer traces the history of this intellectual divide and concludes that it is high time the left radically revised its outdated view of human nature. He shows how the insights of modern evolutionary theory can help to set realistic and realisable goals, reinvigorating left-wing thinking.
This is a new vision of the political left from one of the leading moral philosophers of our time.
