While non-human primate studies have long been conducted in laboratories, and more
recently at zoological parks, sanctuaries are increasingly considered a viable setting for …

The tragedy of the commons (TOC) is an unfortunate situation where a shared resource is
exhausted due to uncontrolled exploitation by the selfish individuals of a population …

Evolutionary anthropologists commonly describe humans as a highly cooperative species,
based on our evolved socio-cognitive capacities. However, students and the general public …

Research in African ape sanctuaries has emerged as an important context for our
understanding of comparative cognition and behavior. While much of this work has focused …

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and humans cooperate in reciprocal patterns, but it is
unclear whether these interactions are based on the same psychological foundations. While …

Evolution is an interdisciplinary science. Evolutionary theory is routinely employed across
the overlap** domains of the natural, social, and computational sciences, as a high level …

The default model of economic choice–used in economics instruction and in the bulk of
scholarship in microeconomics–assumes that decision makers are selfish. As shown by …

Group decision-making is common in everyday life, whether a family is sharing a meal or a
corporation is dividing profits. Research in economics on group decision-making has …

The default model of economic choice--used in economics instruction and in the bulk of
scholarship in microeconomics--assumes that decision makers are selfish. As shown by …

Evolutionary anthropologists commonly describe humans as a highly cooperative species,
ultra-social in our capacity to construct elaborate networks of material and symbolic …