Individuals, traditions, and the righteous
- PMID: 31064552
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X18001577
Individuals, traditions, and the righteous
Abstract
Whitehouse's article posits several plausible hypotheses, but suffers from an unwarranted reliance on the importance of distinct social groups in the causation of self-sacrificing behavior. A focus on relationships between individual kin is better able to account for both the evolution of self-sacrifice and present forms of self-sacrifice. The practical importance of this point is discussed.
Comment in
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Four things we need to know about extreme self-sacrifice.Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Jan;41:e222. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1800208X. Behav Brain Sci. 2018. PMID: 31064561
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Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice.Behav Brain Sci. 2018 Feb 7;41:e192. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X18000249. Behav Brain Sci. 2018. PMID: 29409552
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