How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies.
- Submitting institution
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Edinburgh Napier University
- Unit of assessment
- 11 - Computer Science and Informatics
- Output identifier
- 1110241
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rstb.2015.0098
- Title of journal
- Philosophical Transactions B: Biological Sciences
- Article number
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- First page
- 20150098
- Volume
- 371
- Issue
- 1678
- ISSN
- 0962-8436
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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- Citation count
- 32
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This paper uses the methodology of game theory and institutions from computer science to develop a new alternative theory to explain the evolution of cooperation in large-scale societies, one which unlike the predominant previous theory, is fully compatible with economics and standard evolutionary biology. This paper has led to a continued international collaboration with the anthropologist Prof Carel van Schaik (University of Zurich). The new theory has formed the basis of subsequent published work by M. Singh (Harvard University), D. Smith (Bristol University), and S. Gavrilets (Tennessee).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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