
The Evolution of Cooperation: Revised Edition

Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
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Nombre de théoriciens de l’évolution ont longtemps soutenu que les gènes favorisant un comportement égocentrique avaient une plus grande probabilité d’être transmis aux générations suivantes. Les individus porteurs de ces gènes faisant passer systématiquement leurs intérêts avant ceux des autres, ils auraient davantage de chances de survivre et de
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The Neighborhood Project: Using Evolution to Improve My City, One Block at a Time
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Mathematically, there is an optimal way to play such games, but it assumes that players are strangers who will never meet again (i.e. you and that secondhand car salesman). Dutifully, the students produced the optimal solution. But most of the players in the ethnographic societies did not. They either accepted offers that were far too low or insist
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