Herbert Gintis
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Gintis H, van Schaik C, Boehm C
Behav Processes
. 2018 Mar;
161:17-30.
PMID: 29581024
We deploy the most up-to-date evidence available in various behavioral fields in support of the following hypothesis: The emergence of bipedalism and cooperative breeding in the hominin line, together with...
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Gintis H
Behav Brain Sci
. 2016 Aug;
39:e39.
PMID: 27561218
Culture-led gene-culture coevolution is a framework within which substantive explanations of human evolution must be located. It is not itself an explanation. Explanations depend on such concrete historical evolutionary factors...
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Gintis H
Behav Brain Sci
. 2013 Mar;
36(1):91.
PMID: 23445589
Baumard et al. mischaracterize our model of individual and social choice behavior. We model individuals who maximize preferences given their beliefs, and subject to their informational and material constraints (Fehr...
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Gintis H
Behav Brain Sci
. 2012 Dec;
36(1):21-2.
PMID: 23211378
McCullough et al.’s target article is a psychological version of the reputation models pioneered by biologist Robert Trivers (1971) and economist Robert Frank (1988). The authors, like Trivers and Frank,...
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Gintis H, Fehr E
Behav Brain Sci
. 2012 Feb;
35(1):28-9.
PMID: 22289317
The standard theories of cooperation in humans, which depend on repeated interaction and reputation effects among self-regarding agents, are inadequate. Strong reciprocity, a predisposition to participate in costly cooperation and...
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Gintis H
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
. 2011 Feb;
366(1566):878-88.
PMID: 21320901
Human characteristics are the product of gene-culture coevolution, which is an evolutionary dynamic involving the interaction of genes and culture over long time periods. Gene-culture coevolution is a special case...
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Deng K, Gintis H, Chu T
J Theor Biol
. 2010 Oct;
268(1):141-5.
PMID: 20932847
No abstract available.
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Boyd R, Gintis H, Bowles S
Science
. 2010 May;
328(5978):617-20.
PMID: 20431013
Because mutually beneficial cooperation may unravel unless most members of a group contribute, people often gang up on free-riders, punishing them when this is cost-effective in sustaining cooperation. In contrast,...
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