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The Origins of Human Cooperation Through Intergroup Relations in Our Closest Living Relatives

2025-12-10

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Cooperation is the foundation of human society, yet our understanding of its evolutionary origins and underlying mechanisms remains limited. This review draws on intergroup encounters in our closest evolutionary relatives, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and bonobos (Pan paniscus), to better understand the evolutionary pressures and processes that shaped human cooperation. In chimpanzees, parochialism is demonstrate...

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Literature Corpus work: 6ab05b5e-bceb-5bcf-9835-947bd44a6629
DOI: 10.32942/x2636s

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