SHECHEN, NEPAL Cooperation, the Harvard University biologist Martin Nowak has written, is the architect of creativity throughout evolution, from cells to multicellular creatures to anthills to villages to cities. As mankind now tries to solve new, global challenges, we must also find new ways to cooperate. The basis for this cooperation must be altruism.
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