2014
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5747
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Abstract: Proactive, that is, unsolicited, prosociality is a key component of our hyper-cooperation, which in turn has enabled the emergence of various uniquely human traits, including complex cognition, morality and cumulative culture and technology. However, the evolutionary foundation of the human prosocial sentiment remains poorly understood, largely because primate data from numerous, often incommensurable testing paradigms do not provide an adequate basis for formal tests of the various functional hypotheses. We t… Show more

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“…Burkart et al [62] may well be right that prosocial behaviour emerges whenever selection favours cooperative breeding, but this does not mean that cooperative breeding is the only factor that favours the evolution of altruistic social preferences. It seems likely that cooperatively breeding primates and humans have converged on prosociality for different evolutionary reasons and through different pathways.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Burkart et al [62] may well be right that prosocial behaviour emerges whenever selection favours cooperative breeding, but this does not mean that cooperative breeding is the only factor that favours the evolution of altruistic social preferences. It seems likely that cooperatively breeding primates and humans have converged on prosociality for different evolutionary reasons and through different pathways.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, even when chimpanzees were faced with the single-option task, they only responded prosocially on a relatively small proportion of the 0/1 trials. By contrast, 4.5-7.1 year old Swiss children deliver rewards to others 98% of the time in 0/1 trials [62].…”
Section: Ancestral Social Preferencesmentioning
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