ISBN:
0198041179
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9780198041177
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xi, 267 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg.] [S.l.] HathiTrust Digital Library 2010 Electronic reproduction
Series Statement:
Evolution and cognition
Parallel Title:
Print version Why humans cooperate
DDC:
305.6/815
Keywords:
Interpersonal relations Case studies
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Chaldean Catholics
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Fallstudiensammlung
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Fallstudiensammlung
Abstract:
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 evolutio
Description / Table of Contents:
Evolution, culture, cooperation, and the ChaldeansDual 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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL
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