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Why we cooperate

based on the 2008 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford University

by Michael Tomasello

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"In Why We Cooperate, Tomasello Identifies the underlying psychological processes that very likely supported humans' earliest forms of complex collaboration and, ultimately, our unique forms of cultural organization, from the evolution of tolerance and trust to the creation of such group-level structures as cultural norms and institutions."--Jacket.

Helping behaviorSocial normsAltruismCooperativenessSocial evolution