Punishment is not a group adaptation: humans punish to restore fairness rather than to support group cooperation
Punitive behaviours are often assumed to be the result of an instinct for punishment. This instinct would have evolved to punish wrongdoers and it would be the evidence that cooperation has evolved by group selection. Here, I propose an alternative theory according to which punishment is not an adap...
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| Lingua: | English |
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Springer
2011
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