Downes, Stephen M. and Forber, Patrick (2021) Joint Agency and the Uniquely Human Cooperation Hypothesis. In: UNSPECIFIED.

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We propose an account of the evolution of joint agency that contrasts with views that take joint agency to be a uniquely human trait that facilitated the evolution of our social lifeway. We argue that there is huge variation in cooperative behavior and that while much human cooperative behavior may be explained by invoking cognitively rich capacities, such as joint intention, much cooperative behavior does not require such explanation. As a result, promising evolutionary approaches to cooperative behavior explain how it arises in many contexts. Our approach should also shed light on the evolution of such behavior in humans.

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Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (UNSPECIFIED)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Downes, Stephen M. s.downes@utah.edu 0000-0001-9363-3322 Forber, Patrick patrick.forber@tufts.edu
Keywords:	evolution of cooperation; joint intention; evolution
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory
Depositing User:	Stephen M. Downes
Date Deposited:	06 Nov 2021 18:55
Last Modified:	06 Nov 2021 18:55
Item ID:	19816
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Biology > Evolutionary Theory
Date:	November 2021
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19816

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