Why Humans Cooperate A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

Name: Why Humans Cooperate A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
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ISBN: 9780195314236

ISBN-10: 0195314239

ISBN-13: 9780195314236

Edition: 2007

Authors: Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich

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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.

Book details

List price: $81.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/27/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Abbreviations



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 Behavior



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



The Underlying Structure of Cooperation




Ethnographic Research Methods and Challenges




Constructing the Ethnicity and Cooperation Indices


Notes


References


Index