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Print Price: $61.95

Format:
Paperback
272 pp.
33 line illus., 231 mm x 152 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195314236

Publication date:
June 2007

Imprint: OUP US


Why Humans Cooperate

A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

Joseph Henrich and Natalie Henrich

Series : Evolution and Cognition Series

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.

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Natalie Henrich is Assistant Professor at University of British Columbia, Department of Medicine/BCCDC (BC Center for Disease Control)
Joseph Henrich is Canada Research Chair in Culture, Cognition, & Evolution and Associate Professor of Psychology and Economics at the University of British Columbia.

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