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Ancestral social environments plus nonlinear benefits can explain cooperation in human societies
2022-11-18
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Human cooperation (paying a cost to benefit others) is puzzling from a Darwinian perspective, particularly in groups with strangers who cannot repay nor are family members. The beneficial effects of cooperation typically increase nonlinearly with the number of cooperators, e.g., increasing returns when cooperation is low and diminishing returns when cooperation is high. Such nonlinearity can allow cooperation betw...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 6c99253b-5812-5022-82ea-e394e7a5cc31
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1868476/v1