Markets, religion, community size, and the evolution of fairness and punishment.
Large-scale societies in which strangers regularly engage in mutually beneficial transactions are puzzling. The evolutionary mechanisms associated with kinship and reciprocity, which underpin much of primate sodality, do not readily extend to large unrelated groups. Theory suggests that the evolutio...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
2010
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