Kinship underlies costly cooperation in Mosuo villages
The relative importance of social evolution theories such as kin selection, direct reciprocity and need-based transfers in explaining real-world cooperation is the source of much debate. Previous field studies of cooperation in human communities have revealed variability in the extent to which each...
Main Authors: | Matthew Gwynfryn Thomas, Ting Ji, Jiajia Wu, QiaoQiao He, Yi Tao, Ruth Mace |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2018-01-01
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Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.171535 |
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