Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation (Evolution and Cognition)

Henrich, Joseph

ISBN 10: 0195314239 / ISBN 13: 9780195314236

Editore: Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Codice articolo 98I84_62_0195314239

Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull?autore: Natalie Henrich is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Emory University.

Joseph Henrich is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, & Evolution and Associate Professor of Psychology and Economics at the University of British Columbia.

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Titolo: Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and ...
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, USA
Data di pubblicazione: 2007
Legatura: Brossura
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