Altruism, the tendency to behave in ways that benefit others even if it comes at a cost to oneself, is a valuable human quality that can facilitate cooperation with others and promote meaningful ...
Publishers Weekly: The Altruism Equation: Seven Scientists Search for the Origins of Goodness
If evolution involves a competition for survival, then how can we explain altruism? Biologist Dugatkin (Cheating Monkeys and Citizen Bees: The Nature of Cooperation in Animals and Humans) splendidly ...
Nature: Why are we nice? Altruism’s origins are put to the test
Ever since Darwin first published “On the Origin of Species,” scientists have struggled to figure out the evolutionary origins of altruism. How can the theory of “survival of the fittest” be ...
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Altruism, Cooperation and Reciprocity in the Workplace." Chap. 21 in Handbook of the Economics of Giving, Altruism and Reciprocity. Vol. 2, edited by Serge-Christophe Kolm and ...
The following origins are not available when creating an empire. However, most of them are playable by changing empires via loading in multiplayer or after a game-over or Cosmogenesis victory.
Distant Origin is a mod that expands on the Lost Colony and Remnant origins, and adds several more as well. Players can play as a race of refugees exiled by an invading alien race, desperate to retake their homeworld at all costs.
Three New Origins Evolutionary Predators: Push the boundaries of Species Traits by unlocking and combining unique phenotype abilities to craft the ultimate adaptive empire.
First Contact offers a set of new origins and mechanics that give players the chance to tell stories about their civilizations’ early encounters with visitors from the stars — ones that may not have come in peace!