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The Evolution of Cooperation is a 1984 book written by ... (8 December 2006), "Group Competition, Reproductive Leveling, and the Evolution of Human Altruism ...
In evolution, cooperation is the process where groups of organisms work or act together for common or mutual benefits. It is commonly defined as any adaptation that has evolved, at least in part, to increase the reproductive success of the actor's social partners. [ 1 ]
In 2006, he suggested that cooperation was a third fundamental principle of evolution beside mutation and selection. [44] In 2007, he proposed prelife - a theory for the origin of life. [45] In 2008 and 2009 he suggested that positive interaction, but not punishment, promotes evolution of cooperation. [46]
Mutual aid and cooperation are the principles of all species’ biological evolution including human beings’, and the concepts resulting in a profound influence upon biological evolution. E.O. Wilson applied the term of ″sociobiology″ as an attempt to explain social behavior of insect and thus explored the evolutionary mechanism of other ...
Humans cooperate for the same reasons as other animals: immediate benefit, genetic relatedness, and reciprocity, but also for particularly human reasons, such as honesty signaling (indirect reciprocity), cultural group selection, and for reasons having to do with cultural evolution.
Robert Boyd and Peter J. Richerson, two strong proponents of cultural evolution, postulate that the act of social learning, or learning in a group as done in group selection, allows human populations to accrue information over many generations. [51] This leads to cultural evolution of behaviors and technology alongside genetic evolution.
Researchers investigating the ontogeny and evolution of human cooperation design experiments intended to reveal the prosociality of infants and young children, then compare children's performance with that of other animals, typically chimpanzees. [1]
Within social animals, cooperation is suspected to be a cognitive adaptation. [84] The ability of humans to cooperate is likely to have been inherited from an ancestor shared with at least chimpanzees and bonobos. [85] The superior scale and range of human cooperation comes mainly from the ability to use language to exchange social information ...