Do religious and market-based institutions promote cooperation in Hadza hunter-gatherers?

Humans’ willingness to bear costs to benefit others is an evolutionary puzzle. Cultural group selection proposes a possible answer to this puzzle—cooperative norms and institutions proliferate due to group-level benefits. For instance, belief in knowledgeable, moralizing deities is theorized to decr...

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Authors: Stagnaro, Michael N. (Author) ; Stibbard-Hawkes, Duncan N. E. (Author) ; Apicella, Coren L. (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Routledge 2022
In: Religion, brain & behavior
Year: 2022, Volume: 12, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 171-189
Further subjects:B market norms
B Cultural Evolution
B Hadza
B Cooperation
B hunter-gatherers
B Religion
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