Combining evolutionary models with behavioral experiments can generate powerful insights
into the evolution of human behavior. The emergence of online labor markets such as …

'Social competence'refers to the ability of an individual to optimise its social behaviour
depending on available social information. Although such ability will enhance social …

Although cooperation is a widespread phenomenon in nature, human cooperation exceeds
that of all other species with regard to the scale and range of cooperative activities. Here we …

Performing joint actions often requires precise temporal coordination of individual actions.
The present study investigated how people coordinate their actions at discrete points in time …

Humans use punishment to promote cooperation in laboratory experiments but evidence
that punishment plays a similar role in non-human animals is comparatively rare. In this …

Biological market theory has been used successfully to explain cooperative behavior in
many animal species. Microbes also engage in cooperative behaviors, both with hosts and …

Facial recognition plays a key role in human interactions, and there has been great interest
in understanding the evolution of human abilities for individual recognition and tracking …

Causing harm to others would hardly seem to be relevant to cooperation, other than as a
barrier to it. However, because selfish individuals will exploit cooperators, functional …

Cooperative hunting is believed to have important implications for the evolution of sociality
and advanced cognitive abilities. Variation in the level of hunt organisation amongst species …

Non-human primates are marked by well-developed prosocial and cooperative tendencies
as reflected in the way they support each other in fights, hunt together, share food and …