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A framework for modeling human evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Herbert Gintis
Herbert Gintis*
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Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501. hgintis@comcast.net http://people.umass.edu/gintis
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Abstract

Culture-led gene-culture coevolution is a framework within which substantive explanations of human evolution must be located. It is not itself an explanation. Explanations depend on such concrete historical evolutionary factors such as the control of fire, collective child-rearing, lethal weapon technology, altruistic cooperation and punishment, and the mastery of complex collaboration protocols leading to an effective division of social labor.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 39 , 2016 , e39
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