Cooperation and conflict are both a part of human society. While a good deal of the academic literature addresses the evolutionary origins of conflict, in recent years there has been an increased focus on the investigation of the evolutionary origins of cooperative behavior. One component of cooperative behavior that might be present in other animals is aversion to inequity. Some scientists have
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September 22, 2010
Proto-Fairness? Hints of Moral Thinking in Dogs
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November 13, 2009
Taking the neurotrash out
Neuroscientist Raymond Tallis has a barn-storming and somewhat bad tempered article in The New Humanist where he rails against the increasing tendency to explain everything from beauty to crime in terms of brain function.He begins by criticising how neuroscience is now appearing as a handy 'neuro-' prefix to more and more areas of human society, leading to the likes of "neuro-jurisprudence, neuro
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August 17, 2009
Christianity as a civilizing force? The case of Ghanaian women
In the comments, Dheeraj has been arguing for Christianity as a civilizing force in human society. Now that's a big question with a lot of arguments on either side. But here's a new study that gives an interesting angle.The researchers studied women from the Kassena-Nankana of northern Ghana, going there first in 1995, and then back in 2003. What they found was that many of the people in this rem
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