The Evolution of Contingent Cooperation

By Michael Gurven. Current Anthropology, 2006

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The Evolution of Hazing: Motivational Mechanisms and the Abuse of Newcomers (2011, background): “An individual who is understood to be legitimately poor at constructing baskets is unlikely to be seen as free riding when producing fewer baskets than others (Gurven, 2006).”
Reciprocal altruism, rather than kin selection, maintains nepotistic food transfers on an Ache reservation (2008, unknown): “The computations Gurven (2006) reported were made without regard to the direction of transfer imbalances or by only considering positive imbalances.”
The development of contingent reciprocity in children (2013, background): “…some small-scale societies, individuals and family units transfer greater quantities of goods to those that previously transferred greater quantities to them (Bliege Bird, Bird, Smith, & Kushnick, 2002, Gurven, 2004, 2006; Gurven, Hill, & Kaplan, 2002; Gurven, Hill, Kaplan, Hurtado, & Lyles, 2000).”
Mechanisms of reciprocity in primates: testing for short-term contingency of grooming and food sharing in bonobos and chimpanzees (2013, methodology): “…32 models (reviewed by Nowak 2006) as well as from empirical studies on human foragers (Allen-33 Arave et al., 2008; Gurven, 2004a, 2004b; Gurven, 2006; Koster, 2011; Patton, 2005; Ziker & 34 Schnegg, 2005) and non-human primates (reviewed by Silk 2002; Schino 2007; Schino and 35 Aureli…”