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#764 Alessandra Cassar: Female Competitiveness, Cooperative Breeding, and Market Development

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The Relationship Between Maternal Care and Prosociality in Humans

I would like to ask you now about the potential relationship between all the maternal care and prosociality in humans. We hear all the time about theories of human cooperation rooted in inter-group conflict, for example. You wrote a very interesting paper recently, I think it's close to being published about prosociality anchored to human cooperative breathing,. So could you tell us about that? Yes, so, okay, competitive, competitiveness, what about cooperation? If we look at nature, cooperation is really a competitive strategy, because by people cooperating over a long period of time. In a repeated game, it's a really win-win when you cooperate with other people.

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