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Unto Others: the Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish BehaviorElliot Sober and David Sloan Wilson, Cambridge, MA:Harvard University Press,1998. US$29.95 paper. ISBN 067-4930-460. Harvard University Press, 79 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

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