Edited by Peter Hammerstein The MIT Press, 2003 FROM THE DUST JACKET Current thinking in evolutionary biology holds that competition among individuals is the key to understanding natural selection. When competition exists, it is obvious that conflict arises; the emergence of cooperation, however, is less straightforward and calls for in-depth analysis. Much research is now focused on defining and expanding the evolutionary models of cooperation. Understanding the mechanisms of cooperation has relevance for fields other than biology. Anthropology, economics, mathematics, political science, primatology, and psychology are adopting the evolutionary approach and developing analogies based on it. Similarly, biologists use elements of economic game theory and analyze cooperation in "evolutionary games." Despite this, exchanges among researchers in these different disciplines have been limited. Seeking to fill this gap, the 90th Dahlem Workshop was convened. This book, which grew out of that meeting, addresses such topics as emotions in human cooperation, reciprocity, biological markets, cooperation and conflict in multicellularity, genomic and intercellular cooperation, the origins of human cooperation, and the cultural evolution of cooperation; the emphasis is on open questions and future research areas. The book makes a significant contribution to a growing process of interdisciplinary cross-fertilization on this issue. PETER HAMMERSTEIN is Professor in Organismic Evolution a the Institute for Theoretical Biology at Humbolt University, Berlin and an external member of the interdisciplinary Santa Fe Institute. TABLE OF CONTENTS Dahlem Konferenzen ix List of Participants xi 1. Understanding Cooperation: An Interdisciplinary Challenge 1 Peter Hammerstein THE ROLE OF COGNITION AND EMOTION IN COOPERATION 2. The Strategy of Affect: Emotions in Human Cooperation 7 Daniel M. T. Fessler and Kevin J. Haley 3. Cooperation without Counting: The Puzzle of Friendship 37 Joan B. Silk 4. Is Strong Reciprocity a Maladaptation? On the Evolutionary Foundations of Human Altruism 55 Ernst Fehr and Joseph Henrich 5. Why Is Reciprocity So Rare in Social Animals? A Protestant Appeal 83 Peter Hammerstein 6. The Bargaining Model of Depression 95 Edward H. Hagen 7. Group Report: The Role of Cognition and Emotion in Cooperation 125 Richard McElreath, Rapporteur Timothy H. Clutton-Brock, Ernst Fehr, Daniel M. T. Fessler, Edward H. Hagen, Peter Hammerstein, Michael Kosfeld, Manfred Milinski, Joan B. Silk, John Tooby, and Margo I. Wilson MARKETS AND EXPLOITATION IN MUTUALISM AND SYMBIOSIS 8. Does Market Theory Apply to Biology? 153 Samuel Bowles and Peter Hammerstein 9. Biological Markets: The Ubiquitous Influence of Partner Choice on the Dynamics of Cleaner Fish-Client Reef Fish Interactions 167 Redouan Bshary and Ronald Noe 10. The Scope for Exploitation within Mutualistic Interactions 185 Judith L. Bronstein 11. By-product Benefits, Reciprocity, and Pseudoreciprocity in Mutualism 203 Olof Leimar and Richard C. Connor 12. The Red King Effect: Evolutionary Rates and the Division of Surpluses in Mutualisms Carl T. Bergstrom and Michael Lachmann 13. Group Report: Interspecific Mutualism - Puzzles and Predictions 241 Carl T. Bergstrom, Rapporteur Judith L. Bronstein, Redouan Bshary, Richard C. Connor Martin Daly, Steven A. Frank, Herbert Gintis, Laurent Keller Olof Leimar, Ronald Noe, and David C. Queller GENOMIC AND INTERCELLULAR COOPERATION: DISTRIBUTION OF POWER AND DIVISION OF LABOR 14. Power in the Genome: Who Suppresses the Outlaw? 257 Rolf F. Hoekstra 15. The Transition from Single Cells to Multicellularity 271 Eors Szathmary and Lewis Wolpert 16. Cooperation and Conflict Mediation during the Origin of Multicellularity 291 Richard E. Michod 17. Mitochondria and Programmed Cell Death: "Slave Revolt" or Community Homeostasis? 309 Neil W. Blackstone and Thomas B.L. Kirkwood 18. Group Report: Cooperation and Conflict in the Evolution of Genomes, Cells, and Multicellular Organisms 327 Michael Lachmann, Rapporteur Neil W. Blackstone, David Haig, Axel Kowald, Richard E. Michod, Eors Szathmary, John H. Werren, and Lewis Wolpert COOPERATION IN HUMAN SOCIETIES 19. Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation 357 Peter J. Richerson, Robert T. Boyd, and Joseph Henrich 20. The Power of Norms 389 H. Peyton Young 21. Human Cooperation: Perspectives from Behavioral Ecology 401 Eric A. Smith 22. Origins of Human Cooperation 429 Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis 23. Group Report: The Cultural and Genetic Evolution of Human Cooperation 445 Joseph Henrich, Rapporteur Samuel Bowles, Robert T. Boyd, Astrid Hopfensitz, Peter J. Richerson, Karl Sigmund, Eric A. Smith, Franz J. Weissing, and H. Peyton Young Name Index 469 Subject Index 479 ***************************************************** ISBN: 0262083264 (cloth) 45.00 USD WHERE TO ORDER: David Cecere, Contact Phone: (617)258-0603 Email: dcecere@mit.edu The MIT Press 5 Cambridge Center Cambridge, MA 02142-1493 Phone:1-800-405-1619 Email: mitpress-orders@mit.edu Direct link to the MIT Press catalog entry: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=A15CAF20-BE28-43F6-B525-5D0019E88624&ttype=2&tid=9935 Posted Date: 12/23/03
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