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  1. How domesticating fire facilitated the evolution of human cooperation.Terrence Twomey - 2014 - Biology and Philosophy 29 (1):89-99.
    Controlled fire use by early humans could have facilitated the evolution of human cooperation. Individuals with regular access to the benefits of domestic fire would have been at an advantage over those with limited or no access. However, a campfire would have been relatively costly for an individual to maintain and open to free riders. By cooperating, individuals could have reduced maintenance costs, minimized free riding and lessened the risk of being without fire. Cooperators were more likely to survive and (...)
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  • The human fear paradox: Affective origins of cooperative care.Tobias Grossmann - 2023 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 46:e52.
    Already as infants humans are more fearful than our closest living primate relatives, the chimpanzees. Yet heightened fearfulness is mostly considered maladaptive, as it is thought to increase the risk of developing anxiety and depression. How can this human fear paradox be explained? The fearful ape hypothesis presented herein stipulates that, in the context of cooperative caregiving and provisioning unique to human great ape group life, heightened fearfulness was adaptive. This is because from early in ontogeny fearfulness expressed and perceived (...)
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  • Inférence à la meilleure explication, théorie de l’esprit, psychologie normative et rôle de la culture : Autour du livre Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies. Benoît Dubreuil, Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies.Luc Faucher - 2012 - Philosophiques 39 (1):271-283.
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