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Cooperation, evolution, and culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

Michael Alvard*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4352 http://people.tamu.edu/~alvard/
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Abstract:

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Rejecting evolutionary principles is a mistake, because evolutionary processes produced the irrational human minds for which Colman argues. An evolved cultural ability to acquire information socially and infer other's mental states (mind-reading) evokes Stackelberg reasoning. Much of game theory, however, assumes away information transfer and excludes the very solution that natural selection likely created to solve the problem of cooperation.

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