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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 c...

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Published in:Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci
Main Authors: Powers, Simon T., van Schaik, Carel P., Lehmann, Laurent
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4760198/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26729937
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0098
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