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Cooperation, Risk and the Evolution of Teamwork

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  • Peter Andras
  • John Lazarus

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Our aims in this chapter are twofold. First, we place teamwork in the context of the evolutionary analysis of cooperation and altruism. This allows us to predict the evolutionary scenarios likely to have favoured the evolution of team work, the probable origins of human teamwork and the biases to be predicted in team thinking. Second, we examine the influences of environmental adversity and uncertainty (both conceptualized as ‘risk’) on cooperation in the organic world and describe a new model to explain these influences. We conclude by drawing conclusions about the role of environmental risk in the emergence of human cooperation and teamwork.

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  • Peter Andras & John Lazarus, 2005. "Cooperation, Risk and the Evolution of Teamwork," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Natalie Gold (ed.), Teamwork, chapter 3, pages 56-77, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52320-3_4
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230523203_4
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    1. Benjamin Heslop & Antony Drew & Elizabeth Stojanovski & Kylie Bailey & Jonathan Paul, 2018. "Collaboration Vouchers: A Policy to Increase Population Wellbeing," Societies, MDPI, vol. 8(2), pages 1-19, June.
    2. Peter Andras & John Lazarus & Gilbert Roberts & Steven J Lynden, 2005. "Uncertainty and Cooperation: Analytical Results and a Simulated Agent Society," Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 9(1), pages 1-7.

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