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Collective action and the collaborative brain

2014-10-28

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Humans are unique both in their cognitive abilities and in the extent of cooperation in large groups of unrelated individuals. How our species evolved high intelligence in spite of various costs of having a large brain is perplexing. Equally puzzling is how our ancestors managed to overcome the collective action problem and evolve strong innate preferences for cooperative behavior. Here I theoretically study the e...

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Literature Corpus work: a7f8dd57-38bf-5f1b-be26-fdd9734d2665
DOI: 10.1101/009746

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