The Cultural Evolution of Cooperation

Peter J. Richerson, Vicken Hillis

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Abstract

This entry presents an account of the indispensable social phenomenon of  cooperation  from the viewpoint of modern theories of  evolution . In particular, the entry sketches the outline of a process in which  cultural evolution , or the transmission of behaviors and beliefs among individuals via social learning, can explain the full range of human  cooperation .
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationEncyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences
StatePublished - 2013

EGS Disciplines

  • Human Ecology

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