Why humans cooperate [electronic resource] : a cultural and evolutionary explanation / Natalie Henrich, Joseph Henrich.
By: Henrich, Natalie.
Contributor(s): Henrich, Joseph Patrick | ebrary, Inc.
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BookSeries: Evolution and cognition: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xi, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.Subject(s): Interpersonal relations -- Case studies | Chaldean Catholics -- Michigan -- Detroit RegionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 305.6/815 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.
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.
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