Human populations differ reliably in the degree to which people favor family, friends, and community members over strangers and outsiders. In the last decade, researchers have begun to propose several economic and evolutionary hypotheses for these cross...
Economics increasingly treats preferences, beliefs, and institutions not as primitives but as products of culture — socially transmitted information that evolves over time. We review the exchange between economics and the field of cultural evolution...
Economics increasingly treats preferences, beliefs, and institutions not as primitives but as products of culture — socially transmitted information that evolves over time. We review the exchange between economics and the field of cultural evolution...
We would like to thank the commentators for their generous comments, valuable insights and helpful suggestions. We begin this response by discussing the selfishness axiom and the importance of the preferences, beliefs, and constraints framework as away of...
Synthesizing existing work from diverse disciplines, this paper introduces a culture-gene coevolutionary approach to human behavior and psychology, and applies it to the evolution of cooperation. After a general discussion of cooperation in humans, this...
Much existing literature in anthropology suggests that teaching is rare in non-Western societies, and that cultural transmission is mostly vertical (parent-to-offspring). However, applications of evolutionary theory to humans predict both teaching and non...
