London, Jan 15 : Classic Victorian novels like Dracula, Middlemarch and Pride and Prejudice sowed the seeds of values of cooperation and the suppression of hunger for power in today''''s generation, according to evolutionary psychologists.

For example in George Eliot''''s Middlemarch, Dorothea Brooke turns her back on wealth to help the poor, while Bram Stoker''''s nocturnal menace, Count Dracula, comes to represent the worst excesses of aristocratic dominance.