Volume 45, Number 16 · October 22, 1998

Survival of the Nicest?

By Richard C. Lewontin
Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
by Elliott Sober, by David Sloan Wilson

Harvard University Press, 394 pp., $29.95

In Higher Superstition, a book remarkable both for its influence on the intellectual community and for its obtuse ignorance of the actual state of science, the authors told us that



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