Cooperation and its evolution / edited by Kim Sterelny [and others].

"A Bradford Book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

The evolution of individualistic norms / Don Ross -- Timescales, symmetry, and uncertainty reduction in the origins of hierarchy in biological systems / Jessica C. Flack [and others] -- On depending on fish for a living, and other difficulties of living sustainably / Hanna Kokko and Katja Heubel -- Life in interesting times : cooperation and collective action in the Holocene / Kim Sterelny -- The birth of hierarchy / Paul Seabright -- Territoriality and loss aversion : the evolutionary roots of property rights / Herbert Gintis -- Cooperation and biological markets : the power of partner choice / Ronald Noë and Bernhard Voekl -- False advertising in biological markets : partner choice and the problem of reliability / Ben Fraser -- MHC-mediated benefits of trade : a biomolecular approach to cooperation in the marketplace / Haim Ofek -- What we don't know about the evolution of cooperation in animals / Deborah M. gordon -- Task partitioning : is it a useful concept? / Adam G. Hart -- Cooperative breeding in birds : toward a richer conceptual framework / Andrew Cockburn -- Why the proximate-ultimate distinction is misleading, and why it matters for understanding the evolution of cooperation / Brett Calcott -- Emergence of a signaling network with probe and adjust / Brian Skyrms and Simon M. Huttegger -- Bacterial social life : information processing characteristics and cooperation coevolve / Livio Riboli Sasco, François Taddei, and Sam Brown -- Two modes of transgenerational information transmission / Nicholas Shea -- What can imitation do for cooperation? / Cecilia Heyes -- The role of learning in punishment, prosociality, and human uniqueness / Fiery Cushman -- Our pigheaded core : how we became smarter to be influenced by other people / Hugo Mercier -- Altruistic behaviors from a developmental and comparative perspective / Felix Warneken -- Culture-gene evolution, large-scale cooperation, and the shaping of human social psychology / Maciek Chudek, Wanying Zhao, and Joseph Henrich -- Suicide bombers, weddings, and prison tattoos : an evolutionary perspective on subjective commitment and objective commitment / Daniel M.T. Fessler and Katinka Quintelier -- Communicative functions of shame and guilt / June P. Tangney [and others] -- Moral disgust and the tribal instincts hypothesis / Daniel R. Kelly -- Evolution, motivation, and moral beliefs / Matteo Mameli -- The many moral nativisms / Richard Joyce.

This collection reports on the latest research on an increasingly pivotal issue for evolutionary biology: cooperation. The chapters are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and utilize research tools that range from empirical survey to conceptual modeling, reflecting the rich diversity of work in the field. They explore a wide taxonomic range, concentrating on bacteria, social insects, and, especially, humans.

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