Why Humans Cooperate

A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

By: Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich

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Hardcover | 1 November 2006

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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results. Their experimental and ethnographic data come from a small, insular group of middle-class Iraqi Christians called Chaldeans, living in metro Detroit, whom the Henrichs use as an example to show how kinship relations, ethnicity, and culturally transmitted traditions provide the key to explaining the evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.

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Abbreviations	p. xi
Evolution, Culture, Cooperation, and the Chaldeans	p. 3
Dual Inheritance Theory: The Evolution of Cultural Capacities and Cultural Evolution	p. 7
Evolutionary Theory and the Social Psychology of Human Cooperation	p. 35
The Chaldeans: History and the Community Today	p. 75
Family First: Kinship Explains Most Cooperative Behavior	p. 89
Cooperation through Reciprocity and Reputation	p. 109
Social Norms and Prosociality	p. 133
Culturally Evolved Social Norms Lead to Context-Specific Cooperation	p. 157
Ethnicity: In-Group Preferences and Cooperation	p. 175
Cooperative Dilemmas in the World Today	p. 205
The Underlying Structure of Cooperation	p. 215
Ethnographic Research Methods and Challenges	p. 219
Constructing the Ethnicity and Cooperation Indices	p. 225
Notes	p. 229
References	p. 241
Index	p. 255
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