1) Tournament selection has issues of not sampling all individuals in a population and not selecting some individuals. 2) Cooperative selection is proposed as an improvement that is more altruistic. It works by having the better of two randomly sampled individuals be selected for breeding, while the other individual is helped by taking the average fitness of the two. 3) This process is illustrated through an example population where cooperative selection results in all individuals being both sampled and selected for breeding, avoiding the problems with tournament selection.