Group Cooperation without Group Selection: Modest Punishment Can Recruit Much Cooperation.

Group Cooperation without Group Selection: Modest Punishment Can Recruit Much Cooperation.

Humans everywhere cooperate in groups to achieve benefits not attainable by individuals. Individual effort is often not automatically tied to a proportionate share of group benefits. This decoupling allows for free-riding, a strategy that (absent countermeasures) outcompetes cooperation. Empirically...

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Main Authors: Max M Krasnow, Andrew W Delton, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4404356?pdf=render

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