Evolving the Psychological Mechanisms for Cooperation

• Published in: Annual review of ecology, evolution, and systematics Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 499 - 518
• Main Authors: Stevens, Jeffrey R., Cushman, Fiery A., Hauser, Marc D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Palo Alto, CA Annual Reviews 01.12.2005; Annual Reviews, Inc
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal behavior; Animal cognition; Animal species; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Biological altruism; Biological and medical sciences; Birds; Cognitive ability; Cooperation; Discounting; Evolution; Formicidae; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; Harassment; Humans; Kin selection; Memory; Mutualism; Nature; Primates; Psychology; Studies; Taxa; Acquisition process; Social interaction; Intraspecific recognition; Memory; Individual recognition; Interspecific association; temporal discounting; Altruism; Review; Mutualism; Interspecific relation

Cooperation is common across nonhuman animal taxa, from the hunting of large game in lions to the harvesting of building materials in ants. Theorists have proposed a number of models to explain the evolution of cooperative behavior. These ultimate explanations, however, rarely consider the proximate...