Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5822600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter J Richerson (0000-0002-7233-358X, University of California, Riverside, corresponding author), Joe Henrich (University of California, Riverside) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2373-7530 • E-ISSN: 2373-7530 |
| Publisher | California Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.21237/c7clio3112453 |
| OpenAlex | W3123822913 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 35 |
| References cited | 82 |
Human social life is uniquely complex and diverse. Much of that complexity and diversity arises from culturally transmitted ideas, values and skills that underpin the operation of social norms and institutions that structure our social life. Considerable theoretical and empirical work has been devoted to the role of cultural evolutionary processes in the evolution of social norms and institutions. The most persistent controversy has been over the role of cultural group selection and gene-culture coevolution in early human populations during Pleistocene. We argue that cultural group selection and related cultural evolutionary processes had an important role in shaping the innate components of our social psychology. By the Upper Paleolithic humans seem to have lived in societies structured by institutions, as do modern populations living in small-scale societies. The most ambitious attempts to test these ideas have been the use of experimental games in field settings to document human similarities and differences on theoretically interesting dimensions. These studies have documented a huge range of behavior across populations, although no societies so far examined follow the expectations of selfish rationality. These data are at least consistent with operation of cultural group selection and gene-culture coevolution operating in the deep tribal past and with the contemporary importance of cultural evolution in the evolution of institutions and institutional diversity
Coevolution · Cultural group selection · Instinct · Social evolution · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior · Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
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| Unique citing works | 35 |
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| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |