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T1 Emergence and Evolution of Cooperation Under Resource Pressure
A1 Pereda, María
A1 Zurro, Débora
A1 Santos Martín, José Ignacio
A1 Briz i Godino, Ivan
A1 Álvarez, Myrian
A1 Caro Saiz, Jorge
A1 Galán Ordax, José Manuel
K1 Industrial management
K1 Gestión de empresas
AB We study the influence that resource availability has on cooperation in the context of hunter-gatherersocieties. This paper proposes a model based on archaeological and ethnographic research on resourcestress episodes, which exposes three different cooperative regimes according to the relationshipbetween resource availability in the environment and population size. The most interesting regimerepresents moderate survival stress in which individuals coordinate in an evolutionary way to increasethe probabilities of survival and reduce the risk of failing to meet the minimum needs for survival.Populations self-organise in an indirect reciprocity system in which the norm that emerges is to sharethe part of the resource that is not strictly necessary for survival, thereby collectively lowering thechances of starving. Our findings shed further light on the emergence and evolution of cooperation inhunter-gatherer societies.
PB Nature Publishing Group
SN 2045-2322
YR 2017
FD 2017-03
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4408
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/4408
LA eng
NO Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation Project CSD2010-00034(SimulPast CONSOLIDER-INGENIO 2010) and HAR2009-06996; from the Argentine National Scientificand Technical Research Council (CONICET): Project PIP-0706; from the Wenner-Gren Foundation forAnthropological Research: Project GR7846; and from the project H2020 FET OPEN RIA IBSEN/662725
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 23-nov-2024