Origins of Altruism and Cooperation

Altruism as an Aspect of Relational Consciousness and How Culture Inhibits It

Origins of Altruism and Cooperation 2011 David Hay

The concept of relational consciousness emerged during an investigation of the plausibility of the hypothesis that Darwinian natural selection underlies the cultural phenomenon of religion. This conjecture originated with Sir Alister Hardy FRS, who was the Head of the Zoology Department in Oxford University between 1946 and 1961 and founder in 1969 of the Religious Experience Research Unit,...