Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation write by Peter Hammerstein. This book was released on 2003. Genetic and Cultural Evolution of Cooperation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Table of contents
The Evolution of Cooperation
The Evolution of Cooperation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Evolution of Cooperation write by Robert Axelrod. This book was released on 2009-04-29. The Evolution of Cooperation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.
A Cooperative Species
A Cooperative Species - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cooperative Species write by Samuel Bowles. This book was released on 2013-07-21. A Cooperative Species available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
For Whose Benefit?
For Whose Benefit? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook For Whose Benefit? write by Patrik Lindenfors. This book was released on 2017-03-27. For Whose Benefit? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book takes the reader on a journey, navigating the enigmatic aspects of cooperation; a journey that starts inside the body and continues via our thoughts to the human super-organism. Cooperation is one of life’s fundamental principles. We are all made of parts – genes, cells, organs, neurons, but also of ideas, or ‘memes’. Our societies too are made of parts – us humans. Is all this cooperation fundamentally the same process? From the smallest component parts of our bodies and minds to our complicated societies, everywhere cooperation is the organizing principle. Often this cooperation has emerged because the constituting parts have benefited from the interactions, but not seldom the cooperating units appear to lose on the interaction. How then to explain cooperation? How can we understand our intricate societies where we regularly provide small and large favors for people we are unrelated to, know, or even never expect to meet again? Where does the idea come from that it is right to risk one’s life for country, religion or freedom? The answers seem to reside in the two processes that have shaped humanity: biological and cultural evolution.
Culture and the Evolutionary Process
Culture and the Evolutionary Process - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Culture and the Evolutionary Process write by Robert Boyd. This book was released on 1988-06-15. Culture and the Evolutionary Process available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do biological, psychological, sociological, and cultural factors combine to change societies over the long run? Boyd and Richerson explore how genetic and cultural factors interact, under the influence of evolutionary forces, to produce the diversity we see in human cultures. Using methods developed by population biologists, they propose a theory of cultural evolution that is an original and fair-minded alternative to the sociobiology debate.
