Cooperative punishment and religion's role in the evolution of prosocial altruism

The Biology of Religious Behavior: The Evolutionary Origins of Faith and Religion

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 204-218

  Jaffe, Klaus ^a   Zaballa, Luis ^b  

^a Universidad Simeon Bolivar   (Venezuela)

^b International Society of Human Ethology   (Spain)

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