Civilizing Cooperation: Paul Seabright and the Company of Strangers

Kim Sterelny

doi:10.1007/s13752-012-0018-6

Civilizing Cooperation: Paul Seabright and the Company of Strangers

Kim Sterelny^*

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Paul Seabright is the first to clearly identify a major puzzle about human social evolution: the expansion of cooperation in the more complex societies of the Holocene. Identifying that problem is a major achievement, but in this paper I give a somewhat different account of the nature of the problem and a somewhat different account of the social world of Pleistocene foragers. So, we agree that there is a problem, but not on its nature or solution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	120-126
Number of pages	7
Journal	Biological Theory
Volume	6
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13752-012-0018-6
Publication status	Published - Jun 2011

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