Rousseau’s Whale Hunt?

By M. Alvard, David A. Nolin. Current Anthropology, 2002

178 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Global and Planetary Change, Sociology and Political Science

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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2. Michael Gurven
3. A. Melis
4. Jennifer E. Smith
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Citations in the corpus

• Coordination of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a Stag Hunt Game (2011, background): “…for the stag so long as all decide to do it (Skyrms 2004).1 Because all individuals would prefer the stag, the players’ personal interests do not conflict with those of others and hence they are all better off cooperating so that defection or deception are not major issues (Alvard and Nolin 2002).”
• Reply to comments. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation: The Interdependence Hypothesis (2012, background): “But Stag Hunt problems continue to present themselves, even in contemporary foraging populations: Alvard and Nolin (2002) show, for instance, that whale-hunting practices in the Lamelera of Indonesia conform well to such a payoff structure: an individual’s returns from a collaborative whale hunt…”
• Cooperative breeding and its significance to the demographic success of humans. (2010, background): “Subsistence economies are characterized by widespread labor cooperation and food sharing (Alvard & Nolin 2002; Gurven et al. 2000; Hames 1990, 2000; Smith & Boyd 1990).”
• To give and to give not: The behavioral ecology of human food transfers (2004, background): “The costs of not sharing would be prohibitive to a harpooner in Lamalera.”
• Communication and collective action: language and the evolution of human cooperation (2010, background): “Linguistic communication may not eliminate these challenges, but it can certainly be of great help (Alvard & Nolin, 2002).”
• Evolution of Cooperation among Mammalian Carnivores and Its Relevance to Hominin Evolution (2012, background): “In contrast, modern hunts by the Ache of Paraguay (Kaplan and Hill 1985) and subsistence whale hunters of Lamalera, Indonesia (Alvard and Nolin 2002; O’Connell, Hawkes, and Blurton Jones 1988), regularly capture prey of much larger than 10 kg in hunts requiring advanced planning.”
• Scars for war: evaluating alternative signaling explanations for cross-cultural variance in ritual costs (2007, background): “Cooperative hunting and concomitant band-wide food sharing pose widely recognized free-rider problems and most anthropological research on these topics has been aimed at explaining how groups manage these problems (e.g., Alvard & Nolin, 2002; Gurven, 2004; Sosis, 2000b).”