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Neuroscience and human nature: Review of The Altruistic Brain

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  • Specialty section: This article was submitted to Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience, a section of the journal

  • Pfaff ’s book, which is written for a non-specialist audience, presents and interprets evidence in favor of an idea already expressed by Wilhelm von Humboldt who declared that humankind is intrinsically more inclined to philanthropic than self-serving actions

  • Altruistic Brain Theory (ABT) is simple insofar as that it posits that the brain processes altruism in only five steps, all of which are rooted in well-understood neurocognitive mechanisms

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Specialty section: This article was submitted to Evolutionary Psychology and Neuroscience, a section of the journal. A book review on The Altruistic Brain: How we are Naturally Good

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