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The Evolution of Human Cooperativeness
Why is it that humans have evolved to coordinate with people that aren't part of their genetic kin? That's a huge research program on that. A lot of people will point to reciprocity where it pays to sort of help somebody if they'll help you back. Reputation is another mechanism that might be really important. And so we're motivated to cooperate with individuals who may not know well or are related to us.