{"id":26235,"date":"2011-05-18T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/david_brooks-nice_guys_finish_first\/"},"modified":"2011-05-18T15:28:33","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T15:28:33","slug":"david_brooks-nice_guys_finish_first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26235","title":{"rendered":"David Brooks&#8211;Nice Guys Finish First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The story of evolution, we have been told, is the story of the survival of the fittest&#8230;.[and] this is partially true&#8230;Yet every day, it seems, a book crosses my desk, emphasizing a different side of the story. These are books about sympathy, empathy, cooperation and collaboration, written by scientists, evolutionary psychologists, neuroscientists and others. It seems there\u2019s been a shift among those who study this ground, yielding a more nuanced, and often gentler picture of our nature.<\/p>\n<p>The most modest of these is \u201cSuperCooperators\u201d\u009d by Martin Nowak with Roger Highfield. Nowak uses higher math to demonstrate that \u201ccooperation and competition are forever entwined in a tight embrace.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/17\/opinion\/17brooks.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story of evolution, we have been told, is the story of the survival of the fittest&#8230;.[and] this is partially true&#8230;Yet every day, it seems, a book crosses my desk, emphasizing a different side of the story. These are books<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26235\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,129,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-psychology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}