The Foundations of Human Sociality

Economic Experiments and Ethnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies

Edited by Samuel Bowles, Robert Boyd, Joseph Henrich, Herbert Gintis, Ernest Fehr and Colin Camerer

This path-breaking book addresses the nature of human sociality. By bringing together experimental and ethnographic data from 15 different tribal societies, the contributors are able to explore the universality of human motives in economic decision-making, and the importance of social, institutional, and cultural factors, in a manner that has been extremely rare in the social sciences. Its findings have far-reaching implications across the social sciences.

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Rob Boyd has written widely on evolutionary theory and the role of culture and cooperation in human evolution. He is currently the Origins Professor in the School of Evolution and Social Change and research affiliate with the Institute of Human Origins.

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Date published
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN
9780199262045
Genres
Science, Nonfiction, Culture, Archaeology and anthropology
College or unit
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Institute of Human Origins

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