Why Humans Cooperate

A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

Joseph Henrich, Natalie Henrich (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2007
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-531423-6 (ISBN)

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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. This book examines this phenomena with a fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other experimental results.

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 evolution of cooperation over multiple generations.

Natalie Henrich is Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. Joseph Henrich is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, & Evolution and Associate Professor of Psychology and Economics at the University of British Columbia.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	26.7.2007
Reihe/Serie	Evolution and Cognition Series
Zusatzinfo	33 line illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 232 mm
Gewicht	399 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	0-19-531423-9 / 0195314239
ISBN-13	978-0-19-531423-6 / 9780195314236
Zustand	Neuware