Genetic and cultural evolution of cooperation

By M. Mesterton-Gibbons. 2004

430 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/eb7b582a08cc21642c6cf0a61fbbb49e0e06a1f1

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

In Sociology and Political Science

Citations in the corpus

Human prosociality from an evolutionary perspective: variation and correlations at a city-wide scale ☆ (2009, background): “The literature on social capital provides another rich source of information on human altruism and selfishness (e.g., Halpern, 2004; Putnam, 2000; Sampson, McAdam, MacIndoe, & Weffer-Elizondo, 2005).”
Coevolution of Composite‐Tool Technology, Constructive Memory, and Language (2010, background): “…including anthropology, economics, ecology, ethology, political science, endocrinology, and neurology (Dawes et al. 2007; Fehr and Henrich 2003; Hammerstein 2003; Kosfeld et al. 2005; Krueger, Grafman, and McCabe 2008; Krueger et al. 2007; McCabe et al. 2001; Nowak and Sigmund 2005; Richerson,…”
Social recognition : A top down view of cephalopod behaviour (2006, neutral): “Three categories of cooperative behavior are typically recognized (but see discussions in Hammerstein 2003 ).”
Towards effective payoffs in the prisoner’s dilemma game on scale-free networks (2007, background): “The strategy donations and adaptation probabilities of agents with different connectivities are studied.”
A new route to the evolution of cooperation (2006, background): “Clearly, in biological terms not only quality but also quantity actually matters (Hammerstein, 2003).”
The evolved apprentice. How evolution made humans unique (2012, background): “In partial agreement with Bowles and Gintis (2003), Sterelny accepts the first claim (p. 180) that most people are default cooperators, but then rejects the idea that raiding and war fuelled the evolution of mankind (pp. 186–188).”
Happy to help? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of performing acts of kindness on the well-being of the actor (2018, neutral): “And the human capacity for culture—the ability to invent and share new ways of living (Boyd, Richerson, & Henrich, 2011; Pinker, 2010)—has allowed us to build and elaborate upon this benevolent biological foundation, with rules, norms and other social institutions that further inculcate and amplify ”
Did Neanderthals and other early humans sing? Seeking the biological roots of music in the territorial advertisements of primates, lions, hyenas, and wolves (2009, background): “The theoretical issues surrounding the evolution of group cooperation are complex, but it is nonetheless frequently observed in nature (Hammerstein, 2003).”
Prosocial behavior increases perceptions of meaning in life (2017, background): “Prosocial behavior is critical for creating the trust and cooperation necessary to sustain impersonal and complex societies and markets (Bowles & Gintis, 2003; Fehr & Schmidt, 1999; Hamilton, 1964; Henrich et al., 2011; Trivers, 1971).”
The development of contingent reciprocity in children (2013, background): “…Previous Choice (i.e. whether relationship quality predicted reciprocity), because closer friends might be more likely to interact in the future and thus more reciprocal, but prior studies also suggest that friends may be less likely to immediately reciprocate than non-friends (Silk, 2003).”