Why Humans Cooperate

Zusatztext I recommend this book as in introduction to the field. It is comprehensive and clearly written. Informationen zum Autor Natalie Henrich is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. Joseph Henrich is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, & Evolution and Associate Professor of Psychology and Economics at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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.

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• Authors: Joseph Henrich, Joseph (Assistant Professor of Anthropolo Henrich, Joseph (Assistant Professor of Anthropology Henrich, Joseph Henrich Henrich, Natalie Henrich, Natalie (Adjunct Professor Henrich, Henrich Joseph, Henrich Natalie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2007
• EAN: 9780195314236
• ISBN: 978-0-19-531423-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 234 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Evolution and Cognition Series; Evolution and Cognition (Paper; Evolution and Cognition Series; Print on demand; Evolution and Cognition
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Genetics, genetic engineering; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social groups, Social groups, communities and identities