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Did Warfare Among Ancestral Hunter-Gatherers Affect the Evolution of Human Social Behaviors? by Bowles, Samuel

“…Since Darwin, intergroup hostilities have figured prominently in explanations of the evolution of human social behavior. Yet whether ancestral humans were…”
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Policies Designed for Self-Interested Citizens May Undermine "The Moral Sentiments": Evidence from Economic Experiments by Bowles, Samuel

“…High-performance organizations and economies work on the basis not only of material interests but also of Adam Smith's "moral sentiments." Well-designed laws…”
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Group Competition, Reproductive Leveling, and the Evolution of Human Altruism by Bowles, Samuel

“…Humans behave altruistically in natural settings and experiments. A possible explanation--that groups with more altruists survive when groups compete--has long…”
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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: Substitutes or Complements? by Bowles, Samuel, Polanía-Reyes, Sandra

“…Explicit economic incentives designed to increase contributions to public goods and to promote other pro-social behavior sometimes are counterproductive or…”
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Coordinated Punishment of Defectors Sustains Cooperation and Can Proliferate When Rare by Boyd, Robert, Gintis, Herbert, Bowles, Samuel

“…Because mutually beneficial cooperation may unravel unless most members of a group contribute, people often gang up on free-riders, punishing them when this is…”
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Coevolution of farming and private property during the early Holocene by Bowles, Samuel, Choi, Jung-Kyoo

“…The advent of farming around 12 millennia ago was a cultural as well as technological revolution, requiring a new system of property rights. Among mobile…”
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Coevolution of Parochial Altruism and War by Choi, Jung-Kyoo, Bowles, Samuel

“…Altruism--benefiting fellow group members at a cost to oneself--and parochialism--hostility toward individuals not of one's own ethnic, racial, or other…”
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Cultivation of cereals by the first farmers was not more productive than foraging by Bowles, Samuel

“…Did foragers become farmers because cultivation of crops was simply a better way to make a living? If so, what is arguably the greatest ever revolution in…”
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The evolution of strong reciprocity: cooperation in heterogeneous populations by Bowles, Samuel, Gintis, Herbert

“…How do human groups maintain a high level of cooperation despite a low level of genetic relatedness among group members? We suggest that many humans have a…”
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The Inheritance of Inequality by Bowles, Samuel, Gintis, Herbert

“…How level is the intergenerational playing field? What are the causal mechanisms that underlie the intergenerational transmission of economic status? Are these…”
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The Evolution of Altruistic Punishment by Boyd, Robert, Gintis, Herbert, Bowles, Samuel, Richerson, Peter J.

“…Both laboratory and field data suggest that people punish noncooperators even in one-shot interactions. Although such "altruistic punishment" may explain the…”
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Intergenerational Wealth Transmission and the Dynamics of Inequality in Small-Scale Societies by Mulder, Monique Borgerhoff, Bowles, Samuel, Hertz, Tom, Bell, Adrian, Beise, Jan, Clark, Greg, Fazzio, Ila, Gurven, Michael, Hill, Kim, Hooper, Paul L, Irons, William, Kaplan, Hillard, Leonetti, Donna, Low, Bobbi, Marlowe, Frank, McElreath, Richard, Naidu, Suresh, Nolin, David, Piraino, Patrizio, Quinlan, Rob, Schniter, Eric, Sear, Rebecca, Shenk, Mary, Smith, Eric Alden, von Rueden, Christopher, Wiessner, Polly

“…Small-scale human societies range from foraging bands with a strong egalitarian ethos to more economically stratified agrarian and pastoral societies. We…”
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The Determinants of Earnings: A Behavioral Approach by Bowles, Samuel, Gintis, Herbert, Osborne, Melissa

“…We survey the determinants of earnings and propose a framework for understanding labor market success. We suggest that the advantages of the children of…”
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"Economic man" in cross-cultural perspective: behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies by Henrich, Joseph, Boyd, Robert, Bowles, Samuel, Camerer, Colin, Fehr, Ernst, Gintis, Herbert, McElreath, Richard, Alvard, Michael, Barr, Abigail, Ensminger, Jean, Henrich, Natalie Smith, Hill, Kim, Gil-White, Francisco, Gurven, Michael, Marlowe, Frank W, Patton, John Q, Tracer, David

“…Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of…”
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In Search of Homo Economicus: Behavioral Experiments in 15 Small-Scale Societies by Henrich, Joseph, Boyd, Robert, Bowles, Samuel, Camerer, Colin, Fehr, Ernst, Gintis, Herbert, McElreath, Richard

“…Twelve experienced field researchers, working in 12 countries on five continents, recruited subjects from 15 small-scale societies exhibiting a wide variety of…”
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Greater wealth inequality, less polygyny: rethinking the polygyny threshold model by Ross, Cody T., Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Oh, Seung-Yun, Bowles, Samuel, Beheim, Bret, Bunce, John, Caudell, Mark, Clark, Gregory, Colleran, Heidi, Cortez, Carmen, Draper, Patricia, Greaves, Russell D., Gurven, Michael, Headland, Thomas, Headland, Janet, Hill, Kim, Hewlett, Barry, Kaplan, Hillard S., Koster, Jeremy, Kramer, Karen, Marlowe, Frank, McElreath, Richard, Nolin, David, Quinlan, Marsha, Quinlan, Robert, Revilla-Minaya, Caissa, Scelza, Brooke, Schacht, Ryan, Shenk, Mary, Uehara, Ray, Voland, Eckart, Willführ, Kai, Winterhalder, Bruce, Ziker, John

“…Monogamy appears to have become the predominant human mating system with the emergence of highly unequal agricultural populations that replaced relatively…”
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Wealth Transmission and Inequality among Hunter‐Gatherers by Smith, Eric Alden, Hill, Kim, Marlowe, Frank W., Nolin, David, Wiessner, Polly, Gurven, Michael, Bowles, Samuel, Borgerhoff Mulder, Monique, Hertz, Tom, Bell, Adrian

“…We report quantitative estimates of intergenerational transmission and population‐wide inequality for wealth measures in a set of hunter‐gatherer populations…”
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Strong Reciprocity and the Roots of Human Morality by Gintis, Herbert, Henrich, Joseph, Bowles, Samuel, Boyd, Robert, Fehr, Ernst

“…Human morality is a key evolutionary adaptation on which human social behavior has been based since the Pleistocene era. Ethical behavior is constitutive of…”
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The co-evolution of individual behaviors and social institutions by Bowles, Samuel, Choi, Jung-Kyoo, Hopfensitz, Astrid

“…We present agent-based simulations of a model of a deme-structured population in which group differences in social institutions are culturally transmitted and…”
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Incentive-Enhancing Preferences: Personality, Behavior, and Earnings by Bowles, Samuel, Gintis, Herbert, Osborne, Melissa

“…While the study of behavioral and personality traits as earnings determinants is in its infancy, enough is known to support four conclusions: 1. Measures of…”
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