Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Volumn 760, Issue , 2014, Pages 1-71

  Richerson, Peter ^a   Baldini, Ryan ^a   Bell, Adrian ^b   Demps, Kathryn ^c   Frost, Karl ^a   Hillis, Vicken ^a   Mathew, Sarah ^d   Newton, Emily ^e   Narr, Nicole ^a   Newson, Lesley ^a   Ross, Cody ^a   Smaldino, Paul ^a   Waring, Timothy ^f   Zefferman, Matthew ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e DOMINICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^g University of Tennessee and National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition; culture; evolution; group selection; heritable variation; institutionsnorms

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; COMPETITION; COOPERATION; CRIME; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL BIAS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL GROUP SELECTION; DRIVE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; GENETIC SELECTION; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INHERITANCE; INSTITUTION; KIN SELECTION; LANGUAGE; MIGRATION; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANIZATION; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; PRESTIGE BIAS; PUNISHMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIGION; REVIEW; RITUAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NORM; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TRIBAL SOCIAL INSTINCT; WAR;

EID: 84911400962     PISSN: 0140525X     EISSN: 14691825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X1400106X     Document Type: Review

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