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.
- ISBN10 0195300688
- ISBN13 9780195300680
- Publish Date 27 June 2007 (first published 30 May 2007)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 30 November 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 280
- Language English