A&S All Star Prof. Dugatkin - "The Evolution of Goodness: Why Are Animals and Humans Ever Nice?"

In a world supposedly governed by ruthless survival of the fittest, why do we see acts of goodness in both animals and humans? Since Darwin, scientists and other thinkers have engaged in a fierce debate about the origins of goodness that has dragged politics, philosophy, and religion into what remains a major question for evolutionary biology.