Culture rather than genes provides greater scope for the evolution of large-scale human prosociality

著者: Adrian V. Bell, Peter J. Richerson, Richard McElreath - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS 2009 被引用: 306

Whether competition among large groups played an important role in human social evolution is dependent on how variation, whether cultural or genetic, is maintained between groups. Comparisons between genetic and cultural differentiation between neighboring groups show how natural selection on large groups is more plausible on cultural rather than genetic variation.