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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henrich, Natalie, 1973- author.

Henrich, Joseph Patrick, author.

Series:

Evolution and cognition.

Oxford scholarship online.

Evolution and cognition

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations--Case studies.

Interpersonal relations.

Chaldean Catholics--Michigan--Detroit Region.

Chaldean Catholics.

Physical Description:

xi, 267 p. : ill.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. This book examines this phenomena with a fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results.

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.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-771796-9

0-19-804117-9

1-4356-0092-4

1-281-16284-1

9786611162849

OCLC:

476246821