Altruism and Social Control

Materials

  1. Cosmides, Leda H., Clark Barrett, and John Tooby. 2010. "Adaptive specializations, social exchange, and the evolution of human intelligence," PNAS May 11, 2010 vol. 107 suppl. 2 9007–9014
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  5. Marcel Mauss's book The Gift contains a passage: "Note on alms". This note describes the evolution of the notion of alms (and by extension of altruism) from the notion of sacrifice.1
  6. Piliavin, Jane Allyn, Hong-Wen Charng. 1990. "Altruism: A Review of Recent Theory and Research" by Annual Review of Sociology () Volume: 16, Issue: 1, 27-65
  7. Radiolab The Good Show on altruism and such
  8. Radiolab The Bad Show
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  11. In the Light of Evolution IV: The Human Condition 2009 PNAS Symposium
  12. Infants prefer a nasty moose if it punishes an unhelpful elephant