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The Pleistocene social contract : culture and cooperation in human evolution /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sterelny, Kim (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Subjects:
Cooperation > Sociological aspects.
Economic anthropology.
Social evolution.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • The Pleistocene Social Contract
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Building Cumulative Culture
  • 1.1 Methodological Preliminaries
  • 1.2 Culture and Cooperation
  • 1.3 The Prehistory of an Unusual Ape
  • 1.4 The Growing Footprint of Cultural Learning
  • 1.5 Cumulative Cultural Learning
  • 1.6 Adapted Minds and Environments
  • 1.7 Overview
  • 2. The Pleistocene Social Contract
  • 2.1 Free-​Riders and Bullies
  • 2.2 Curbing Dominance Hierarchies
  • 2.3 An Economy of Reciprocation
  • 2.4 Making Reciprocation Work: Gossip
  • 2.5 Making Reciprocation Work: Norms
  • 2.6 Making Reciprocation Work: Ritual
  • 2.7 Stabilizing Cooperation
  • 3. Cooperation in a Larger World
  • 3.1 Cooperation between Bands
  • 3.2 The Origins of an Open Society
  • 3.3 Cooperation, Culture and Conflict
  • 3.4 Individual Selection, Group Selection and Cultural Group Selection
  • 4. Cooperation in Hierarchical Communities
  • 4.1 The Puzzle of Farming
  • 4.2 Cooperation in an Unequal World
  • 4.3 Religion, Ritual and Ideology
  • 4.4 Conflict, Hierarchy and Inequality
  • Epilogue: Why Only Us?
  • References
  • Index