The Genetics of Cooperation

Abstract: Binmore analyzes the genetic basis of cooperation. Much of the literature doing this supposes that we must explain directly the cooperative tendency, whether by individual or group selection. A more effective way to go is to find something more general and likely more deeply embedded in personal traits that enables and even enhances cooperation. Hume, with whom Binmore claims affinities, long ago proposed a psychological phenomenon now called mirroring, which induces good relations through shared sentiments in a way that is essentially hard-wired. Mirroring indirectly contributes to cooperativeness. There may be other similarly indirect ways to account for human cooperativeness.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: The Genetics of Cooperation ; volume:28 ; number:1 ; year:2006 ; pages:57-65 ; extent:9 ; Analyse & Kritik ; 28, Heft 1 (2006), 57-65 (gesamt 9)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Hardin, Russell

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/auk-2006-0104
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404171624426.788115566689
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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