| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 267 pages) : illustrations |
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Evolution and cognition |
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Evolution and cognition.
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| Contents |
Evolution, culture, cooperation, and the Chaldeans -- Dual inheritance theory: the evolution of cultural capacities and cultural evolution -- Evolutionary theory and the social psychology of human cooperation -- The Chaldeans: history and the community today -- Family first: kinship explains most cooperative bahavior -- Cooperation through reciprocity and reputation -- Social norms and prosociality -- Culturally evolved social norms lead to context-specific cooperation -- Ethnicity: in-group preferences and cooperation -- Cooperative dilemmas in the world today |
| Summary |
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 evolutio |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Case studies
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Chaldean Catholics -- Michigan -- Detroit Region
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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Chaldean Catholics
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Interpersonal relations
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Michigan -- Detroit Region
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Henrich, Joseph Patrick.
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| LC no. |
2006048326 |
| ISBN |
9780198041177 |
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0198041179 |
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0195314239 |
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9780195314236 |
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0195300688 |
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9780195300680 |
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9786611162849 |
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6611162844 |
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9781435600928 |
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1435600924 |
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1281162841 |
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9781281162847 |
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