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Models of decision-making and the coevolution of social preferences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2005

Joseph Henrich*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
Robert Boyd*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095
Samuel Bowles*
Affiliation:
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501 and Faculty of Economics, University of Siena, 53100 Siena, Italy
Colin Camerer*
Affiliation:
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
Ernst Fehr*
Affiliation:
University of Zurich, CH-8006, Zurich, Switzerland
Herbert Gintis*
Affiliation:
Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501 and Faculty of Economics, Central European University, H-1051 Budapest, Hungary
Richard McElreath*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA 95616
Michael Alvard*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4352
Abigail Barr*
Affiliation:
Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UL, United Kingdom
Jean Ensminger*
Affiliation:
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125
Natalie Smith Henrich*
Affiliation:
ORC Macro, Atlanta, GA 30329
Kim Hill*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1086
Francisco Gil-White*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6196
Michael Gurven*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Frank W. Marlowe*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
John Q. Patton*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92834-6846
David Tracer*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and Health and Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO 80217
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We would like to thank the commentators for their generous comments, valuable insights and helpful suggestions. We begin this response by discussing the selfishness axiom and the importance of the preferences, beliefs, and constraints framework as a way of modeling some of the proximate influences on human behavior. Next, we broaden the discussion to ultimate-level (that is evolutionary) explanations, where we review and clarify gene-culture coevolutionary theory, and then tackle the possibility that evolutionary approaches that exclude culture might be sufficient to explain the data. Finally, we consider various methodological and epistemological concerns expressed by our commentators.

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