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Jukka Aakula
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Sapolsky in his book Behave discusses behavior on many levels "why it does make evolutionary sense", "how does it work in the human brain" etc.
Bowles discusses cooperation both on proximate and ultimate level. For evolutionary economy proximate level is naturally the preference level (e.g. "Does a human have social preferences or not") and the ultimate level the question is "how did social preferences evolve".
— Oct 12, 2024 12:49AM
Bowles discusses cooperation both on proximate and ultimate level. For evolutionary economy proximate level is naturally the preference level (e.g. "Does a human have social preferences or not") and the ultimate level the question is "how did social preferences evolve".
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Jukka Aakula
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Started re-rereading.
One assumption of Bowles's and Gintis's model probably fails - wars became frequent first after humans became sedentary. Mobile hunter-gathers probably did not have war. How does this affect the theory.
— Oct 08, 2024 09:18AM
One assumption of Bowles's and Gintis's model probably fails - wars became frequent first after humans became sedentary. Mobile hunter-gathers probably did not have war. How does this affect the theory.
Jukka Aakula
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Altruistic punishment is discussed in Chapter 8. The second-order free-riding problem (free-riding in altruistic punishment) can be solved.
— Mar 14, 2024 02:41AM
Jukka Aakula
is on page 145 of 275
War increases trust among ingroups according to an Israeli study. Genocide against a village increases altruism towards the ingroup in the village according to a study carried out in Ruanda - and contribution to the community e.g. by participation in community organizations.
— Mar 12, 2024 08:55PM
Jukka Aakula
is on page 129 of 275
The coevolution of genes for altruism and institutions (culture) like food sharing was probably important in the Pleistocene.
Interestingly, the coevolution in practice causes cyclicity in the level of altruism and in the level of food sharing. (The assumption was "resource sharing may reduce incentives to acquire the resources to be shared.")
— Mar 10, 2024 11:04PM
Interestingly, the coevolution in practice causes cyclicity in the level of altruism and in the level of food sharing. (The assumption was "resource sharing may reduce incentives to acquire the resources to be shared.")
Jukka Aakula
is on page 106 of 275
"Ember and Ember (1992) conclude that a “history of unpredictable natural disasters strongly predicts more war . . . people, particularly in non-state societies, may try to protect themselves against future disasters by going to war to take resources from enemies.”"
More war meant stronger group selection.
— Mar 09, 2024 05:35AM
More war meant stronger group selection.
Jukka Aakula
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"Modeling the complex processes that sustain human cooperation is a major challenge of contemporary science. Economic theory, favoring parsimony over realism, has sought to explain cooperation without reference to social preferences, and with a minimalist or fictive description of social institutions. This research trajectory, as we have seen, has produced significant insights. But it may have run its course."
— Mar 07, 2024 09:08PM
