How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies
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How institutions shaped the last major evolutionary transition to large-scale human societies.
What drove the transition from small-scale human societies centred on kinship and personal exchange, to large-scale societies comprising cooperation and division of labour among untold numbers of unrelated individuals? We propose that the unique human capacity to negotiate institutional rules that coordinate social actions was a key driver of this transition. By creating institutions, humans ha...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0098