Understanding cooperation through fitness interdependence

Athena Aktipis (), Lee Cronk, Joe Alcock, Jessica D. Ayers, Cristina Baciu, Daniel Balliet, Amy M. Boddy, Oliver Scott Curry, Jaimie Arona Krems, Andrés Muñoz, Daniel Sullivan, Daniel Sznycer, Gerald S. Wilkinson and Pamela Winfrey
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Athena Aktipis: Arizona State University
Lee Cronk: Rutgers University
Joe Alcock: University of New Mexico
Jessica D. Ayers: Arizona State University
Cristina Baciu: Arizona State University
Daniel Balliet: VU Amsterdam
Amy M. Boddy: University of California, Santa Barbara
Oliver Scott Curry: University of Oxford
Jaimie Arona Krems: Oklahoma State University
Andrés Muñoz: Arizona State University
Daniel Sullivan: University of Arizona
Daniel Sznycer: University of Montreal, Montreal
Gerald S. Wilkinson: University of Maryland, College Park
Pamela Winfrey: Arizona State University

Nature Human Behaviour, 2018, vol. 2, issue 7, 429-431

Abstract: Some acts of human cooperation are not easily explained by traditional models of kinship or reciprocity. Fitness interdependence may provide a unifying conceptual framework, in which cooperation arises from the mutual dependence for survival or reproduction, as occurs among mates, risk-pooling partnerships and brothers-in-arms.

Date: 2018
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