{"id":41904,"date":"2011-06-14T03:01:43","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12341"},"modified":"2011-06-14T03:01:43","modified_gmt":"2011-06-14T11:01:43","slug":"band-of-brothers-at-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/14\/band-of-brothers-at-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Band of brothers at war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/06\/800px-All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12342\" title=\"800px-All_Gizah_Pyramids\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/06\/800px-All_Gizah_Pyramids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"255\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The fruits of human cooperation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.researchblogging.org\/public\/citation_icons\/rb2_large_gray.png\" alt=\"ResearchBlogging.org\" \/><\/a><em><strong>The Pith:<\/strong> Human societies can solve the free rider problem, and generate social structure and complexity at a higher level than that of the band. That implies that much of human prehistory may have been characterized by supra-brand structures. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why cooperation? Why social complexity? Why the &#8216;problem&#8217; of altruism? These are issues which bubble up at the intersection of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ethology\">ethology<\/a> and evolution. They also preoccupy thinkers in the social sciences who address fundamental questions. There are perhaps two major dimensions of the parameter space which are useful to consider here: <strong>the nature of the relationship between the cooperators, and the scale of the cooperation.<\/strong> An <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Inclusive_fitness\">inclusive fitness<\/a> framework tracks the relation between altruism and genetic relatedness. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Reciprocal_altruism\">Reciprocal altruism<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tit-for-tat\">tit-for-tat<\/a> don&#8217;t necessarily focus on the genetic relationship between the agents who exchange in mutually beneficial actions. But, in classical models they do tend to focus on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dyad\">dyadic<\/a> relationships at a small scale.* That is, they&#8217;re methodologically individualistic at heart. So all complexity can be reduced to lower orders of organization. In economics a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rational_choice_theory\">rational &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fruits of human cooperation<br \/>\nThe Pith: Human societies can solve the free rider problem, and generate social structure and complexity at a higher level than that of the band. That implies that much of human prehistory may have been characterized by&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[428,9,463,222,170,7,1471,465,430,431,1472,1473],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-altruism","category-anthroplogy","category-cooperation","category-cultural-evolution","category-ethology","category-evolution","category-free-rider","category-group-selection","category-inclusive-fitness","category-kin-selection","category-punishment","category-social-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41912,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41904\/revisions\/41912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}