Tag Archives: parasite-driven wedge
Cooperators Attract Cooperators, Non-Cooperators are Stuck with Each Other
In catching up on a back-log of articles people have emailed me, I’m absorbing what I think are probably obvious but nonetheless profound implications of a study by Coren Apicella, Frank Marlowe, James Fowler, & Nicholas Christakis that was published … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Cultural Evolution
Tagged behavioral immune system, cooperation, Coren L. Apicella, degree assortativity, degree distribution, Frank W. Marlowe, free-riders, Hadza, homophily, hunter-gatherers, James H. Fowler, Joseph Henrich, Nicholas A. Christakis, parasite-driven wedge, reciprocity, social networks, transitivity
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HBES 2012 Roundup 4: Father’s Day & the Parasite-Driven Wedge
So I blew Father’s Day. Totally didn’t realize I’d booked myself to go to HBES on Father’s Day. And much as I love my dad, it wasn’t because I wasn’t going to be with him. It was because my wife … Continue reading
Posted in Adaptation, Cultural Evolution, Evolution and Psychology, Hypotheses
Tagged behavioral immune system, Corey Fincher, Costa Rica, Father's Day, HBES, Human Behavior & Evolution Society, Karen Wynn, Li Mate Value Inventory, parasite-driven wedge, Randy Thornhill, Religious ecology study
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