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SUBMITTER: Handley C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7000669 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Handley Carla C Mathew Sarah S
Nature communications 20200204 1
A fundamental puzzle of human evolution is how we evolved to cooperate with genetically unrelated strangers in transient interactions. Group-level selection on culturally differentiated populations is one proposed explanation. We evaluate a central untested prediction of Cultural Group Selection theory, by assessing whether readiness to cooperate between individuals from different groups corresponds to the degree of cultural similarity between those groups. We documented the normative beliefs an ...[more]