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Why humans cooperate : a cultural and evolutionary explanation /

Cooperation 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 ex...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henrich, Natalie, 1973-
Otros Autores: Henrich, Joseph Patrick
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Colección:Evolution and cognition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evolution, culture, cooperation, and the Chaldeans
  • Dual inheritance theory: the evolution of cultural capacities and cultural evolution
  • Evolutionary theory and the social psychology of human cooperation
  • The Chaldeans: history and the community today
  • Family first: kinship explains most cooperative bahavior
  • Cooperation through reciprocity and reputation
  • Social norms and prosociality
  • Culturally evolved social norms lead to context-specific cooperation
  • Ethnicity: in-group preferences and cooperation
  • Cooperative dilemmas in the world today.