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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A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich ... learn a fair amount about contemporary Chaldean life in metro Detroit in ... culture and history, with an eye on issues relevant to our work among the Michigan ...
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich ... learn a fair amount about contemporary Chaldean life in metro Detroit in ... culture and history, with an eye on issues relevant to our work among the Michigan ...
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... learning (i.e., culture: Tomasello 1999; Tomasello 2000) and the tendency for these socially transmitted behaviors to alter both our local physical and social environments (Durham 1991), it is quite diYcult to imagine how cultural ...
... learning (i.e., culture: Tomasello 1999; Tomasello 2000) and the tendency for these socially transmitted behaviors to alter both our local physical and social environments (Durham 1991), it is quite diYcult to imagine how cultural ...
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A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich. theory, and detailing a few key aspects of human cultural learning. Chapter 3 narrows our theoretical focus and charts the course for the rest of the book by ...
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich. theory, and detailing a few key aspects of human cultural learning. Chapter 3 narrows our theoretical focus and charts the course for the rest of the book by ...
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... learning can then be understood as the foundational capacity that underpins ... cultural traits'') are also genetic in the sense that their acquisition requires brain machinery that allows for ... Cultural Capacities and Cultural Evolution.
... learning can then be understood as the foundational capacity that underpins ... cultural traits'') are also genetic in the sense that their acquisition requires brain machinery that allows for ... Cultural Capacities and Cultural Evolution.
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... learning abilities are found elsewhere in nature, social learning in our species is high Wdelity, frequent ... cultural,'' then we are a hypercultural species (Henrich 2003). Capacities for social learning—and culture—quite naturally ...
... learning abilities are found elsewhere in nature, social learning in our species is high Wdelity, frequent ... cultural,'' then we are a hypercultural species (Henrich 2003). Capacities for social learning—and culture—quite naturally ...
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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