The evolution of human cooperation |
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Authors: | Philip R. P. Coelho James E. McClure |
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Affiliation: | 1.Ball State University,Muncie,USA |
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Abstract: | We argue that cooperation is instinctual. Human cooperation conferred advantages to individuals in the ancestral environment in which evolution occurred. Explanations of the evolution of cooperation for any species (human, pre-human, and non-human) have to be consistent with the biological, physiological, and environmental constraints that existed in the ancestral environment during which evolutionary selection occurred. Our explanation is consistent with: (1) the anatomical evolution of humanity; (2) the paleontological and chronological evidence; and (3) modern biology. |
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