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Why humans cooperate : a cultural and evolutionary explanation
- Title
- Why humans cooperate : a cultural and evolutionary explanation / Natalie Henrich, Joseph Henrich.
- Author
- Henrich, Natalie, 1973-
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
- Supplementary Content
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Henrich, Joseph Patrick.
- Description
- xi, 267 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Evolution and cognition
- Uniform Title
- Evolution and cognition.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-254) and index.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780195300680 (alk. paper)
- 0195300688 (alk. paper)
- 0195314239 (pbk.)
- 9780195314236 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2006048326
- OCLC
- ocm70199930
- SCSB-5346261
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries