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028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors (P)LTD. _b;7/22,Anasri Road, Daryaganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;1084616 _d;17/10/2018
082			_a302.14 BOW
100			_aSamuel Bowles _a; Herbert Gintis
245			_aA cooperative species _b : human reciprocity and its evolution _c/Samuel Bowles
260			_aPrinceton, N.J. ; Oxford _b : Princeton University Press _c, ©2011.
300			_axii, 262 pages _c;24 cm
365			_b1625
505			_a A cooperative species -- The evolution of altruism in humans -- Social preferences -- The sociobiology of human cooperation -- Cooperative Homo economicus -- Ancestral human society -- The coevolution of institutions and behaviors -- Parochialism, altruism, and war -- The evolution of strong reciprocity -- Socialization -- Social emotions -- Conclusion : human cooperation and its evolution.
520			_aWhy 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.
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_aBehavior evolution _bSocial evolution
700			_aHerbert Gintis
942			_cBOOK
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