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The Pleistocene social contract : culture and cooperation in human evolution / Kim Sterelny, Philosophy, RSSS Australian National University.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sterelny, Kim, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cooperation--Sociological aspects.
- Cooperation.
- Economic anthropology.
- Social evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 182 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover
- The Pleistocene Social Contract
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Building Cumulative Culture
- 1.1 Methodological Preliminaries
- 1.2 Culture and Cooperation
- 1.3 The Prehistory of an Unusual Ape
- 1.4 The Growing Footprint of Cultural Learning
- 1.5 Cumulative Cultural Learning
- 1.6 Adapted Minds and Environments
- 1.7 Overview
- 2. The Pleistocene Social Contract
- 2.1 Free-Riders and Bullies
- 2.2 Curbing Dominance Hierarchies
- 2.3 An Economy of Reciprocation
- 2.4 Making Reciprocation Work: Gossip
- 2.5 Making Reciprocation Work: Norms
- 2.6 Making Reciprocation Work: Ritual
- 2.7 Stabilizing Cooperation
- 3. Cooperation in a Larger World
- 3.1 Cooperation between Bands
- 3.2 The Origins of an Open Society
- 3.3 Cooperation, Culture and Conflict
- 3.4 Individual Selection, Group Selection and Cultural Group Selection
- 4. Cooperation in Hierarchical Communities
- 4.1 The Puzzle of Farming
- 4.2 Cooperation in an Unequal World
- 4.3 Religion, Ritual and Ideology
- 4.4 Conflict, Hierarchy and Inequality
- Epilogue: Why Only Us?
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Oxford Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 27, 2021).
- Local Notes:
- Added to collection customer.56279.3
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sterelny, Kim. The Pleistocene social contract
- ISBN:
- 0197531407
- 9780197531396
- 0197531393
- 9780197531419
- 0197531415
- 9780197531402
- Publisher Number:
- 99988059145
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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