Culture, evolution and the puzzle of human cooperation

@article{citeulike:2564206, abstract = {Synthesizing existing work from diverse disciplines, this paper introduces a culture-gene coevolutionary approach to human behavior and psychology, and applies it to the evolution of cooperation. After a general discussion of cooperation in humans, this paper summarizes Dual Inheritance Theory and shows how cultural transmission can be brought under the Darwinian umbrella in order to analyze how culture and genes coevolve and jointly influence human behavior and psychology. We then present a generally applicable mathematical characterization of the problem of cooperation. From a Dual Inheritance perspective, we review and discuss work on kinship, reciprocity, reputation, social norms, and ethnicity, and their application to solving the problem of cooperation.}, author = {Henrich, Joseph and Henrich, Natalie }, booktitle = {Cognition, Joint Action and Collective Intentionality}, citeulike-article-id = {2564206}, doi = {10.1016/j.cogsys.2005.11.010}, journal = {Cognitive Systems Research}, keywords = {cooperation, cultural-transmission, dual-inheritance-theory, ethnicity, gene-culture-evolution, institutional-design, institutions, norms, punishment, reciprocity, reputation}, month = {June}, number = {2-3}, pages = {220--245}, posted-at = {2008-03-19 21:16:53}, priority = {5}, title = {Culture, evolution and the puzzle of human cooperation}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2005.11.010}, volume = {7}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2564206 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2564206 TI - Culture, evolution and the puzzle of human cooperation T2 - Cognition, Joint Action and Collective Intentionality JF - Cognitive Systems Research VL - 7 IS - 2-3 SP - 220 EP - 245 N2 - Synthesizing existing work from diverse disciplines, this paper introduces a culture-gene coevolutionary approach to human behavior and psychology, and applies it to the evolution of cooperation. After a general discussion of cooperation in humans, this paper summarizes Dual Inheritance Theory and shows how cultural transmission can be brought under the Darwinian umbrella in order to analyze how culture and genes coevolve and jointly influence human behavior and psychology. We then present a generally applicable mathematical characterization of the problem of cooperation. From a Dual Inheritance perspective, we review and discuss work on kinship, reciprocity, reputation, social norms, and ethnicity, and their application to solving the problem of cooperation. KW - cooperation KW - cultural-transmission KW - dual-inheritance-theory KW - ethnicity KW - gene-culture-evolution KW - institutional-design KW - institutions KW - norms KW - punishment KW - reciprocity KW - reputation AU - Henrich, Joseph AU - Henrich, Natalie PY - 2006/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2005.11.010 ER -