Favor-Trading in the Amazon for Intelligent People
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This is a brief guide, for anthropologists with some quantitative experience, to our paper Dynamical Structure of a Traditional Amazonian Social Network [1], an article by me (Simon), Paul Hooper (an anthropologist at Emory), Ann Caldwell Hooper (Anthropology, Emory), Michael Gurven (Anthropology, UC Santa Barbara) and Hilly Kaplan (Anthropology, University of New Mexico), featuring real-world data from an indigenous community in Bolivia, and providing new insight into the origins and development of cooperation in human society. Paul and I were fellows together at the Santa Fe Institute when this paper began.
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