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“Self-sacrifice” as an accidental outcome of extreme within-group mutualism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 December 2018

Antoine Marie
Antoine Marie*
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Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. antoine.marie.sci@gmail.comhttps://antoinemariesci.wixsite.com/antoinemarie
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Abstract

Whitehouse makes no room for evolutionary approaches to extreme behaviors based on partner choice and mutualism, which have been convincingly invoked to make sense of ordinary morality. Extended to intergroup warfare, these evolutionary mechanisms may play a pivotal role in explaining the existence of extreme – though not functionally sacrificial – behaviors, benefiting non-kin fellow fighters, together with the distinctive phenomenology those behaviors display.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 41 , 2018 , e210
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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