SPRING SALE đź“š Buy 3+ Books | Get 25% Off
Tertulia Logo
Sign upLog In
Cart Icon0
Cart Icon0
The co-op bookstore for avid readers
Book Cover for: Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation, Natalie Henrich

Why Humans Cooperate: A Cultural and Evolutionary Explanation

Natalie Henrich

Hardcover
Regular price$83.00With free membership trial$58.0050% off your first book(max discount $25)+ Free shipping
In Stock– Ships within one business day

Do you recommend this book?

Yes!

No

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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publish Date: Jun 27th, 2007
  • Pages: 272
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.21in - 6.14in - 0.69in - 1.25lb
  • EAN: 9780195300680
  • Categories: • Life Sciences - Evolution• Anthropology - Cultural & Social• Life Sciences - Botany

More books to explore

Book Cover for: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
Book Cover for: Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, Cat Bohannon
Book Cover for: Bitch: On the Female of the Species, Lucy Cooke
Book Cover for: A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You, Sean B. Carroll
Book Cover for: Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas, Jennifer Raff
Book Cover for: The Liars of Nature and the Nature of Liars: Cheating and Deception in the Living World, Lixing Sun
Book Cover for: Great Adaptations: Star-Nosed Moles, Electric Eels, and Other Tales of Evolution's Mysteries Solved, Kenneth Catania
Book Cover for: Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind, Peter Godfrey-Smith
Book Cover for: Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA, Neil Shubin
Book Cover for: Sleeping Beauties: The Mystery of Dormant Innovations in Nature and Culture, Andreas Wagner
Book Cover for: Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, Nicholas A. Christakis
Book Cover for: Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies, Edward O. Wilson
Book Cover for: Life as We Made It: How 50,000 Years of Human Innovation Refined--And Redefined--Nature, Beth Shapiro
Book Cover for: The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time, David Sloan Wilson
Book Cover for: The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens--And Ourselves, Arik Kershenbaum

About the Author

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.

What people are saying

What people are saying

See more