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A Cooperative Species - Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution (Paperback) Loot Price: R665
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A Cooperative Species - Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution (Paperback): Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

A Cooperative Species - Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution (Paperback)

Samuel Bowles, Herbert Gintis

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Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin.

In "A Cooperative Species," Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis--pioneers in the new experimental and evolutionary science of human behavior--show that the central issue is not why selfish people act generously, but instead how genetic and cultural evolution has produced a species in which substantial numbers make sacrifices to uphold ethical norms and to help even total strangers.

The authors describe how, for thousands of generations, cooperation with fellow group members has been essential to survival. Groups that created institutions to protect the civic-minded from exploitation by the selfish flourished and prevailed in conflicts with less cooperative groups. Key to this process was the evolution of social emotions such as shame and guilt, and our capacity to internalize social norms so that acting ethically became a personal goal rather than simply a prudent way to avoid punishment.

Using experimental, archaeological, genetic, and ethnographic data to calibrate models of the coevolution of genes and culture as well as prehistoric warfare and other forms of group competition, "A Cooperative Species" provides a compelling and novel account of how humans came to be moral and cooperative.

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Imprint: Princeton University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2013
First published: July 2013
Authors: Samuel Bowles • Herbert Gintis
Dimensions: 254 x 178 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 978-0-691-15816-7
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
LSN: 0-691-15816-9
Barcode: 9780691158167

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