Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

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Oxford University Press, 2007 M06 27 - 272 páginas
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 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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Abbreviations
Evolutionary Theory and the Social Psychology of Human
History and the Community Today
Kinship Explains Most Cooperative Behavior
Cooperation through Reciprocity and Reputation
Social Norms and Prosociality
Culturally Evolved Social Norms Lead to ContextSpecific
InGroup Preferences and Cooperation
Cooperative Dilemmas in the World Today
The Underlying Structure of Cooperation
Constructing the Ethnicity and Cooperation Indices
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Natalie Henrich is Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine/BCCDC (BC Center for Disease Control) Joseph Henrich is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, & Evolution and Associate Professor of Psychology and Economics at the University of British Columbia.

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