TY - BOOK ID - 9997902 TI - A Cooperative Species AU - Bowles, Samuel, AU - Gintis, Herbert PY - 2011 SN - 1283088851 9786613088857 1400838835 9781400838837 0691151253 0691158169 9780691158167 9780691151250 PB - Princeton, NJ DB - UniCat KW - Cooperation. KW - Cooperativeness. KW - Behavior evolution. KW - Behavioral evolution KW - Cooperation (Psychology) KW - Collaborative economy KW - Cooperative distribution KW - Cooperative movement KW - Distribution, Cooperative KW - Peer-to-peer economy KW - Sharing economy KW - Evolutionary psychology KW - Social psychology KW - Economics KW - Profit-sharing KW - Cooperation KW - Cooperativeness KW - Behavior evolution KW - E-books KW - Australia. KW - altruism. KW - altruistic cooperation. KW - altruistic punishment. KW - ancestral humans. KW - behavior. KW - beliefs. KW - coevolution. KW - common good. KW - constraints. KW - coordinated punishment. KW - correlated equilibrium. KW - costly signaling. KW - cultural transmission. KW - culture. KW - early humans. KW - equilibrium selection. KW - ethical norms. KW - evolution. KW - evolutionary dynamics. KW - fitness-reducing norm. KW - fitness. KW - folk theorem. KW - foragers. KW - free-riders. KW - free-riding. KW - gene-culture coevolution. KW - genetic differentiation. KW - genetic inheritance. KW - group competition. KW - group membership. KW - guilt. KW - helping behavior. KW - hostility. KW - human cooperation. KW - hunter-gatherer society. KW - inclusive fitness. KW - indirect reciprocity. KW - institutions. KW - intergroup conflict. KW - internalization. KW - multi-level selection. KW - norms. KW - parochial altruism. KW - parochialism. KW - peer pressure. KW - phenotypic expression. KW - positive assortment. KW - preferences. KW - prehistoric human society. KW - private information. KW - prosocial behavior. KW - public goods game. KW - public information. KW - punishment. KW - reciprocal altruism. KW - repeated game. KW - reproductive leveling. KW - sacrifice. KW - selective extinction. KW - self-interest. KW - shame. KW - social behavior. KW - social dilemmas. KW - social emotions. KW - social institutions. KW - social interactions. KW - social norms. KW - social order. KW - social preferences. KW - socialization. KW - sociobiology. KW - strong reciprocity. KW - within-group segmentation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:9997902 AB - 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. ER -