The Pleistocene social contract [electronic resource] : culture and cooperation in human evolution

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서명/저자사항	The Pleistocene social contract [electronic resource]: culture and cooperation in human evolution / Kim Sterelny, Philosophy, RSSS Australian National University.
개인저자	Sterelny, Kim, author.
발행사항	New York, NY: Oxford University Press, [2021]
형태사항	1 online resource (xi, 182 pages)
ISBN	0197531407 9780197531396 0197531393 9780197531419 0197531415 9780197531402
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references and index.
내용주기	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
요약	"No human now gathers for himself or herself the essential resources for life: food, shelter, clothing, and the like. Humans are obligate co-operator, and this has been true for tens of thousands of years; probably much longer. In this regard, humans are very unusual. Cooperation outside the family is rare: though it can be very profitable, it is also very risky, as cooperation makes an agent vulnerable to incompetence and cheating. This book presents a new picture of the emergence of cooperation in our lineage, developing through four fairly distinct phases from a baseline that was probably fairly similar to living great apes, who cooperate, but in fairly minimal ways. As adults, they rarely depend on others when the outcome really matters. This book suggests that cooperation began to be more important for humans through an initial phase of cooperative foraging generating immediate returns from collective action in small mobile bands. This established in our lineage about 1.8 million years ago, perhaps earlier. Over the rest of the Pleistocene, cooperation became more extended in its social scale, with forms of cooperation between bands gradually establishing, and in spatial and temporal scale too, with various forms of reciprocation becoming important. The final phase was the emergence of cooperation in large scale, hierarchical societies in the Holocene, beginning about 12,000 years ago. This picture is nested in a reading of the archaeological and ethnographic record, and twinned to an account of the gradual elaboration of cultural learning in our lineage, making cooperation both more profitable and more stable"--
해제	Provided by publisher.
일반주제명	Cooperation --Sociological aspects. Economic anthropology. Social evolution. Economic anthropology. Social evolution.
분류기호(DDC)	302.14
언어	영어
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