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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 106, Issue 42, Pages 17671-17674Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0903232106
Keywords
altruism; cultural FST; group selection; prosociality
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- University of California Davis
- National Science Foundation [0340148]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0340148] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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.
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