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Identity, Kinship, and the Evolution of Cooperation

Identity, Kinship, and the Evolution of Cooperation

Extensive cooperation among biologically unrelated individuals is uniquely human. It would be surprising if this uniqueness were not related to other uniquely human characteristics, yet current theories of human cooperation tend to ignore the human aspects of human behavior. This paper presents a theory of cooperation that draws on social, …