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The Genetical Evolution of Social Behaviour. I
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A genetical mathematical model is described which allows for interactions between relatives on one another's fitness and a quantity is found which incorporates the maximizing property of Darwinian fitness, named “inclusive fitness”.About:
This article is published in Journal of Theoretical Biology.The article was published on 1964-07-01. It has received 14730 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Darwinian Fitness & Kin selection.read more
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Cognitive adaptations for social exchange.
Leda Cosmides,John Tooby +1 more
TL;DR: It is argued that humans have a faculty of social cognition, consisting of a rich collection of dedicated, functionally specialized, interrelated modules organized to collectively guide thought and behavior with respect to the evolutionarily recurrent adaptive problems posed by the social world.
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The logic of social exchange: has natural selection shaped how humans reason? Studies with the Wason selection task.
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of experiments designed to test these hypotheses, using the Wason selection task, a test of logical reasoning, were presented, and the experimental design included eight critical tests designed to choose between social exchange theory and these other two families of theories.
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An Ecological Model of Female-Bonded Primate Groups
TL;DR: A model is presented to account for the evolution of FB groups in terms of ecological pressures on female relationships and suggests that relationships in most FB groups are ultimately related to feeding competition.
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Coevolution of neocortical size, group size and language in humans
TL;DR: It is suggested that the evolution of large groups in the human lineage depended on developing a more efficient method for time-sharing the processes of social bonding and that language uniquely fulfills this requirement.
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Putting the Altruism Back into Altruism: The Evolution of Empathy
TL;DR: Empathy is an ideal candidate mechanism to underlie so-called directed altruism, i.e., altruism in response to anothers's pain, need, or distress, and the dynamics of the empathy mechanism agree with predictions from kin selection and reciprocal altruism theory.
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Animal dispersion in relation to social behaviour
TL;DR: Wynne-Edwards has written this interesting and important book as a sequel to his earlier (1962) Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behaviour, and reviewing it has proven to be a valuable task for one who normally is only at the periphery of the group selection controversy.