A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

By Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis. 2011

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Evolution of the social contract (2014, background): “In many scholar’s minds, this vindicates ‘group selection,’ bringing it into the fold of ‘selfish gene theory’ that was outlined Williams [1966] and elaborated (and named) by Dawkins [1976]. Another way that altruism has been found to be possible is that if, as a consequence of the altruistic act, t”
Reputation, Gossip, and Human Cooperation (2016, background): “Evolutionary processes that operate on “selfish” genes can shape psychological mechanisms in a species that promote cooperation and altruism (Bowles & Gintis, 2011).”
An Evolutionary Anthropological Perspective on Modern Human Origins (2015, background): “Triggering territoriality, conflict over resources set the conditions for strong selection for hyper-prosocial proclivities (Bowles 2009, Bowles & Gintis 2011).”
Much of the ‘economics of property rights’ devalues property and legal rights (2015, background): “14 The notion of other-regarding, ‘social preferences’ has become respectable (Bowles and Gintis, 2011; Charness and Rabin, 2002; Fehr and Fischbacher, 2002).”
Evolutionary Political Psychology: On the Origin and Structure of Heuristics and Biases in Politics (2015, background): “The physiological changes observed above most likely reflect a shift in the patterns of interaction within and between these groups toward that which has been termed the “hyper-sociality” of humans (Bowles & Gintis, 2011).”
Evolutionary advantages of adaptive rewarding (2012, background): “Historical evidence suggests that humans have developed remarkable other-regarding abilities to mitigate between-group conflicts [2], as well as helping each other by rearing one another’s offspring [3].”
Empathetic Leadership: How Leader Emotional Support and Understanding Influences Follower Performance (2018, background): “It also provided a means for people to connect and develop networks of partners who could trust each other to cooperate in mutual survival (Axelrod, 2009; Bowles & Gintis, 2011; Dunbar, Barrett, & Lycett, 2005).”
Climate change and sustainable welfare: the centrality of human needs (2015, background): “…preferences—‘a concern for the wellbeing of others and a desire to uphold ethical norms . . . People think that cooperating is the right thing to do and enjoy doing it, and they dislike unfair treatment and enjoy punishing those who violate norms of fairness’ (Bowles and Gintis, 2011, pp 10, 38).”
Evolutionary dynamics of group interactions on structured populations: a review (2013, background): “Although the origins of prosocial behaviour in groups of unrelated individuals are difficult to track down—there exists evidence indicating that between-group conflicts may have been instrumental in enhancing in-group solidarity [154], yet alloparental care and provisioning for someone else’s young ”
Statistical physics of human cooperation (2017, unknown): “for enhancing our in-group solidarity [4].”
Kantian optimization: A microfoundation for cooperation (2015, background): “A recent summary of the state-of-the-art in experimental economics, anthropology, and evolutionary biology is provided by Bowles and Gintis (2011).”
Charitable Giving as a Signal of Trustworthiness: Disentangling the Signaling Benefits of Altruistic Acts (2013, background): “In a computerized laboratory experiment, we test whether altruistic behavior in the form of charitable giving is indeed correlated with trustworthiness and whether a charitable donation increases the observing agents' trust in the donor.”