Survival of the Friendliest: Homo sapiens Evolved via Selection for Prosociality

B Hare - Annual review of psychology, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with …

Marmosets: a neuroscientific model of human social behavior

CT Miller, WA Freiwald, DA Leopold, JF Mitchell… - Neuron, 2016 - cell.com
The common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) has garnered interest recently as a powerful
model for the future of neuroscience research. Much of this excitement has centered on the …

[图书][B] A Natural History of Human Morality

M Tomasello - 2016 - books.google.com
Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral
psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he …

Cultural group selection plays an essential role in explaining human cooperation: A sketch of the evidence

P Richerson, R Baldini, AV Bell, K Demps… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2016 - cambridge.org
Human cooperation is highly unusual. We live in large groups composed mostly of non-
relatives. Evolutionists have proposed a number of explanations for this pattern, including …

Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: The interdependence hypothesis

M Tomasello, AP Melis, C Tennie… - Current …, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast,
we propose that humans' species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species …

The evolutionary origin of human hyper-cooperation

JM Burkart, O Allon, F Amici, C Fichtel… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Proactive, that is, unsolicited, prosociality is a key component of our hyper-cooperation,
which in turn has enabled the emergence of various uniquely human traits, including …

[图书][B] Mothers and others: The evolutionary origins of mutual understanding

SB Hrdy - 2009 - books.google.com
Somewhere in Africa, more than a million years ago, a line of apes began to rear their young
differently than their Great Ape ancestors. From this new form of care came new ways of …

The evolution of general intelligence

JM Burkart, MN Schubiger… - Behavioral and Brain …, 2017 - cambridge.org
The presence of general intelligence poses a major evolutionary puzzle, which has led to
increased interest in its presence in nonhuman animals. The aim of this review is to critically …

How to learn about teaching: An evolutionary framework for the study of teaching behavior in humans and other animals

MA Kline - Behavioral and Brain sciences, 2015 - cambridge.org
The human species is more reliant on cultural adaptation than any other species, but it is
unclear how observational learning can give rise to the faithful transmission of cultural …

Human cumulative culture: a comparative perspective

LG Dean, GL Vale, KN Laland, E Flynn… - Biological …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many animals exhibit social learning and behavioural traditions, but human culture exhibits
unparalleled complexity and diversity, and is unambiguously cumulative in character. These …