Pleistocene Social Contract

Contents
Preface
I. Building Cumulative Culture
1.1 Methodological Preliminaries
1.2 Culture and Cooperation
1.3 The Prehistory of an Unusual Ape
1.4 The Growing Footprint of Cultural Learning
1.5 Cumulative Cultural Learning.
1.6 Adapted Minds and Environments
1.7 Overview
II. The Pleistocene Social Contract
2.1 Free-riders and Bullies
2.2 Curbing Dominance Hierarchies
2.3 An Economy of Reciprocation
2.4 Making Reciprocation Work: Gossip
2.5 Making Reciprocation Work: Norms
2.6 Making Reciprocation Work: Ritual
2.7 Stabilising Cooperation
III. Cooperation in a Larger World
3.1 Cooperation between Bands
3.2 The Origins of an Open Society
3.3 Cooperation, Culture and Conflict
3.4 Individual Selection, Group Selection and Cultural Group Selection
IV. Cooperation in Hierarchical Communities
4.1 The Puzzle of Farming
4.2 Cooperation in an Unequal World.
4.3 Religion, Ritual and Ideology.
4.4 Conflict, Hierarchy and Inequality
Epilogue: Why Only Us?

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