Invisible Rivals - How We Evolved to Compete in a Cooperative World

A multidisciplinary view of how our competitive and cooperative natures make us human

About the author

Jonathan R. Goodman is a social scientist based at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge. He writes about trust, inequality, and evolutionary theory for publications including the Financial Times, New Scientist, Nature, The Guardian, and Scientific American. He lives in London, UK. Robert A. Foley is emeritus professor of human evolution at the University of Cambridge, a senior fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute, and a fellow of the British Academy. He is based in Cambridge, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan R Goodman
• Assisted by: Robert A. Foley (Foreword)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 26.08.2025
• EAN: 9780300274356
• ISBN: 978-0-300-27435-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book; Social Theory, Evolution, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, PSYCHOLOGY / Evolutionary Psychology, Social, group or collective psychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Psychological theory & schools of thought, Evolution / Evolutionary biology