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Why humans cooperate : a cultural and evolutionary explanation / Natalie Henrich, Joseph Henrich.

By: Henrich, Natalie, 1973-.
Contributor(s): Henrich, Joseph Patrick.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Evolution and cognition. Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007Description: xi, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780195300680 (alk. paper); 9780195314236 (pbk.).Subject(s): Interpersonal relations -- Case studies | Chaldean Catholics -- Michigan -- Detroit RegionOnline resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
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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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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