Why humans cooperate : a cultural and evolutionary explanation - Henrich, Natalie, 1973-; Henrich, Joseph Patrick (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.
Keywords: Interpersonal relations -- Case studies; Chaldean Catholics -- Michigan -- Detroit Region