Cooperation in children
Date
03/06/2019Metadata
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Abstract
Cooperation is central to what makes us human. It is so deeply entrenched in our nature that it can be seen at the heart of every culture, whether it takes the form of group hunting, shared child-rearing, or large-scale, multi-national institutions such as the UN. And yet in contrast to the constancy of other forms of cooperation in non-human animals, such as termite-mound building or honey bee dancing, the changing face of human cooperation makes it seem more fragile, and its mechanisms more elusive. As with other features of our behaviour, human cooperation is the product of both genetic and cultural evolution. Studying cooperation in children, in different cultural environments, and in contrast to other species, provides a valuable window into the ways in which these two forms of inheritance interact over development, and a chance to distil out its constitutive components.
Citation
Slocombe , K E & Seed , A M 2019 , ' Cooperation in children ' , Current Biology , vol. 29 , no. 11 , pp. R470-R473 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.066
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Current Biology
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
0960-9822Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2019 Elsevier Ltd.. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.01.066
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