Moral action as cheater suppression in human super organisms: Testing the human superorganism approach to morality

Abstract excerpt

Large-scale human groups cannot rely on shared genetic interests or dyadic reciprocity to ensure social cohesion as genetic similarity is low and indirect reciprocity is rife; nevertheless, such societies continue to cohere, due to the evolution of novel regulatory mechanisms that inhibit defaulting on social obligations: moral sentiments and actions. The present paper argues that the extent of moral concern can b...

Topics

Open a Topic to create a Post that cites this publication.

• Biological Evolution
• Cooperative Behavior
• Culture
• Decision Making
• Game Theory
• Interpersonal Relations
• Models, Statistical
• Phenotype

Identifiers and source

Literature Corpus work

3a330401-b2b1-5c64-8179-5d67f370926c

DOI

10.7287/peerj.preprints.321v1