Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary ExplanationCooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations. |
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... Group, Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart Robert Trivers, Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers Gerd ... Culture and Cognition WHY HUMANS COOPERATE A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Natalie Henrich.
... Group, Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart Robert Trivers, Natural Selection and Social Theory: Selected Papers of Robert Trivers Gerd ... Culture and Cognition WHY HUMANS COOPERATE A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Natalie Henrich.
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A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich ... selection to the evolution of our capacities for social learning (culture) ... group and eating whatever they eat. This cultural approach obtains a pretty good ...
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich ... selection to the evolution of our capacities for social learning (culture) ... group and eating whatever they eat. This cultural approach obtains a pretty good ...
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... cultural learning it is useful to distinguish three levels of explanation: (1) Ultimate level: natural selection ... group's cultural practices may be adaptively neutral or maladaptive. By specifying some of the psychological details of these ...
... cultural learning it is useful to distinguish three levels of explanation: (1) Ultimate level: natural selection ... group's cultural practices may be adaptively neutral or maladaptive. By specifying some of the psychological details of these ...
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A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich ... selection will favor cultural learning mechanisms that allow individuals to extract adaptive information— strategies, practices, heuristics, and beliefs—from other ...
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich ... selection will favor cultural learning mechanisms that allow individuals to extract adaptive information— strategies, practices, heuristics, and beliefs—from other ...
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... cultural learning opportunities improves the average performance of the group ... selection had to build a brain that could contend with its own imperfection ... group goes up). All this is calculated using Wxed mathematical functions that are ...
... cultural learning opportunities improves the average performance of the group ... selection had to build a brain that could contend with its own imperfection ... group goes up). All this is calculated using Wxed mathematical functions that are ...
Contents
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3 Evolutionary Theory and the Social Psychology of Human Cooperation | 35 |
History and the Community Today | 75 |
Kinship Explains Most Cooperative Behavior | 89 |
6 Cooperation through Reciprocity and Reputation | 109 |
7 Social Norms and Prosociality | 133 |
8 Culturally Evolved Social Norms Lead to ContextSpecific Cooperation | 157 |
10 Cooperative Dilemmas in the World Today | 205 |
The Underlying Structure of Cooperation | 215 |
Ethnographic Research Methods and Challenges | 219 |
Constructing the Ethnicity and Cooperation Indices | 225 |
Notes | 229 |
References | 241 |
Index | 255 |
InGroup Preferences and Cooperation | 175 |
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