Why Humans Cooperate

A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-531423-6
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

Reihe: Evolution and Cognition Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henrich, Natalie

Henrich, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Frühmenschen, Hominiden
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Über Autor(innen)

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.