Selfishness and Cooperation: Challenge for Social Life
| Autor: | Konrad Szocik, Stig Lindberg |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
direct reciprocity media_common.quotation_subject B1-5802 cooperation Environmental ethics natural selection Social life 03 medical and health sciences 030104 developmental biology Selfishness kin selection multilevel selection theory Philosophy (General) indirect reciprocity Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Studia Humana, Vol 6, Iss 3, Pp 15-23 (2017) |
| ISSN: | 2299-0518 |
| Popis: | Cooperation is a great challenge for natural selection. Some scholars assume that cooperation could not evolve within the framework of natural selection. It is undeniable that natural selection, at least at the individual level, favors selfishness and defectors. Nonetheless, this selfish tendency does not necessarily imply that cooperation could not evolve by means of natural selection. In this paper, we specifically acknowledge certain basic challenges for the evolution of the human ability to cooperate at the level of large groups. In this paper, we discuss topics like the human ability for “supercooperation,” the importance of repetition and reputation, and Multilevel Selection Theory as the basic mechanisms of evolution of cooperation. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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