Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers

Coren L. Apicella, Frank W. Marlowe, James H. Fowler and Nicholas A. Christakis ()
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Coren L. Apicella: Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Frank W. Marlowe: Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB2 3DZ, UK
James H. Fowler: University of California
Nicholas A. Christakis: Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University

Nature, 2012, vol. 481, issue 7382, 497-501

Abstract: The social networks of Hadza hunter-gatherers are structurally similar to modern social networks and show signs of clustering in cooperative behaviour, which suggests that these networks may have contributed to the emergence of cooperation in early humans.

Date: 2012
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