approached these questions by applying predictions and assumptions of evolutionary game theory to human cooperation within … behavior. Nevertheless, cooperation is ubiquitous in nature. Cooperative behavior is costly and provides benefits to other … others. Thus, cooperation cannot be an evolutionary stable strategy without special mechanisms that can reduce the chance of …

Both natural and cultural selection played an important role in shaping human evolution. Since cultural change can … itself be regarded as evolutionary, a process of gene-culture coevolution is operative. The study of human evolution - in … past, present and future - is therefore not restricted to biology. An inclusive comprehension of human evolution relies on …