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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Main Author: Henrich, Natalie, 1973-
Other Authors: Henrich, Joseph Patrick
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Evolution and cognition.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.
ISBN:9780198041177
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