Allan Nash

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I’m not convinced that a Tit for Tat reciprocity has been clearly demonstrated in other species. But evidence of its strict use would be hard for Martian zoologists to document in humans—after all, there are frequently pairs where one human does all the labor, the other doing nothing other than intermittently handing him some green pieces of paper. The point is that animals have systems of reciprocity with sensitivity to cheating.
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
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