When organisms can choose whom to interact with, it can create a biological market where
individuals need to outbid their rivals for access to cooperative relationships. Each …

The occurrence of cooperation poses a problem for the biological and social sciences.
However, many aspects of the biological and social science literatures on this subject have …

Researchers from across the social sciences have found consistent deviations from the
predictions of the canonical model of self-interest in hundreds of experiments from around …

The evolution of organismality is a social process. All organisms originated from groups of
simpler units that now show high cooperation among the parts and are nearly free of …

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 …

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 …

Here, I provide a guide for those new to the burgeoning field of animal welfare science as to
what this comprehensive, relatively young discipline is all about. Drawing on all branches of …

From an evolutionary point of view, the function of moral behaviour may be to secure a good
reputation as a co‐operator. The best way to do so may be to obey genuine moral …

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 …

This comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date work provides the definitive overview of
marine parasites worldwide. It is an invaluable reference for students and researchers in …