Runaway Social Selection for Displays of Partner Value and Altruism

By R. Nesse. 2007

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The measurement of Human Life History strategy (2013, background): “This specific term was coined later (Nesse, 2007; West-Eberhard, ll rights reserved.”
Strategies for cooperation in biological markets, especially for humans (2013, background): “However, two trading classes are not strictly necessary, because market models are possible where all individuals are of one class and are mutually choosing each other for interactions (Barclay, 2011; McNamara et al., 2008; Nesse, 2007).”
Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review (2010, background): “A third evolutionary argument posits that the compassionate predilections of others are an important criterion in the formation of cooperative relations with nonkin (Axelrod, 1984; Frank, 1988; Nesse, 2007).”
Moral Reputation: An Evolutionary and Cognitive Perspective (2012, background): “What can be called the ‘evolution of cooperation by partner choice’ should be seen as a special case of ‘social selection’ (Baumard, André and Sperber, forthcoming; Dugatkin, 1995; Nesse, 2007; M. West-Eberhard, 1979; M. J. West-Eberhard, 1983; for a brief history of the idea of social selection, se”