Earlier work by game theorists has shown that the reason that, unlike so many other creatures, humans help strangers and unrelated people is down to reputation.
Reputation is important for the evolution of human cooperation, through a process called “indirect reciprocity”, summed up by ‘I help you and somebody else helps me’.
# 2008 Jul 30
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