Fehr, Ernst; Fischbacher, Urs - EconWPA - 2004
of society are centred around issues of altruism and selfishness. Experimental evidence indicates that human altruism is … between altruists and selfish individuals is vital to human cooperation. Depending on the environment, a minority of altruists … altruists to defect. Current gene-based evolutionary theories cannot explain important patterns of human altruism, pointing …