Civilizing Cooperation: Paul Seabright and the Company of Strangers

Biological Theory 6 (2):120-126 (2011)
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Abstract

Paul Seabright is the first to clearly identify a major puzzle about human social evolution: the expansion of cooperation in the more complex societies of the Holocene. Identifying that problem is a major achievement, but in this paper I give a somewhat different account of the nature of the problem and a somewhat different account of the social world of Pleistocene foragers. So, we agree that there is a problem, but not on its nature or solution.

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The other cooperation problem: Generating benefit.Brett Calcott - 2008 - Biology and Philosophy 23 (2):179-203.
Why do people cooperate?Ken Binmore - 2006 - Politics, Philosophy and Economics 5 (1):81-96.

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