Rolston, Holmes, 1932-, authorJoint Publication Board of Zygon, publisher2007-01-032007-01-032011Rolston, Holmes, III, Review, SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed by Martin A. Nowak, with Roger Highfield, Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 46, no. 4 (December 2011): 1003-1005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2011.01219.xhttp://hdl.handle.net/10217/48099This is an electronic version of an article published in Zygon®: Journal of Religion and Science.Includes bibliographical references (page 1005).Martin Nowak hopes by mathematical analysis to show that evolution generates Super-cooperators. Personal anecdotes here undermine his fundamental claim that everything and anything that happens in the universe is the consequence of universal logic acting on universal rules. Nowak presents "the bright side of biology," the importance of cooperation in evolution. He thinks the long-term and ongoing results may be open. "Cooperation comes and goes, waxes and wanes. It has to be reborn in endless cycles." Although his account might show the natural history of how cooperation evolved, it is powerless to explain how a universal ethic could be produced or kept in place, as promoted, for example, by Good Samaritans, who share both compassion and their creeds, so that there is no differential genetic benefit.born digital|reviews (documents)eng©2011 Joint Publication Board of Zygon.Copyright and other restrictions may apply. User is responsible for compliance with all applicable laws. For information about copyright law, please see https://libguides.colostate.edu/copyright.Nowak, Martinmathematicsmathematical biologycooperationevolutionaltruismGood SamaritanethicsTexthttps://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9744.2011.01219.x