Why Humans Cooperate
A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
1st Edition
Published on 27. June 2007
280 pages
978-0-19-804117-7 (ISBN)
Description
Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.
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Natalie Henrich is Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine/BCCDC (BC Center for Disease Control)
Joseph Henrich is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, & Evolution and Associate Professor of Psychology and Economics at the University of British Columbia.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- 1. Evolution, Culture, Cooperation, and the Chaldeans
- 2. Dual Inheritance Theory: The Evolution of Cultural Capacities and Cultural Evolution
- 3. Evolutionary Theory and the Social Psychology of Human Cooperation
- 4. The Chaldeans: History and the Community Today
- 5. Family First: Kinship Explains Most Cooperative Behavior
- 6. Cooperation through Reciprocity and Reputation
- 7. Social Norms and Prosociality
- 8. Culturally Evolved Social Norms Lead to Context-Specific Cooperation
- 9. Ethnicity: In-Group Preferences and Cooperation
- 10. Cooperative Dilemmas in the World Today
- Appendix A: The Underlying Structure of Cooperation
- Appendix B: Ethnographic Research Methods and Challenges
- Appendix C: Constructing the Ethnicity and Cooperation Indices
- Notes
- References
- Index
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