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Let's cooperate to understand cooperation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2003

John Lazarus*
Affiliation:
Evolution and Behaviour Research Group, Psychology, School of Biology, University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH United Kingdom http://www.ncl.ac.uk/biol/staff/john_lazarus.html
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The importance of understanding human cooperation urges further integration between the relevant disciplines. I suggest ideas for bottom-up and top-down integration. Evolutionary psychology can investigate the kinds of reasoning it was adaptive for humans to employ. Disciplines can learn from each other's approaches to similar problems, and I give an example for economics and evolutionary biology.

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