Chaos or collaboration? How humans learned to cooperate

Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 06:50 in Psychology & Sociology

How and why did human beings evolve to cooperate with unrelated individuals or even strangers? Consider National Public Radio — donors could listen for free, yet thousands of people donate, collectively supporting a public good. To understand how this cooperative inclination developed in humans over the last millennia, scientists look to our primate cousins to […]

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