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For humans, collaboration is rewarding for its own sake, a behavioral split that may underlie key differences between human and chimpanzee societies. Primate researchers, working with semi-free ranging chimpanzees at a sanctuary in Uganda, found chimpanzees recruit a helping partner only if it gets them more food than they’d get alone. The study, described in Animal Behavior, Sept. 7, is part of a current trend in primatology to unpick how motivation and mental state affects an animal’s interactions.

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The problem is context. Competition certainly works in the short term, and it certainly works among individuals.

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a six week course using asynchronous forums, blogs, wikis, mindmaps, social bookmarks, synchronous audio, video, chat, and Twitter to introduce the fundamentals of an interdisciplinary study of cooperation: social dilemmas, institutions for collective action, the commons, evolution of cooperation, technologies of cooperation, and cooperative arrangements in biology from cells to ecosystems. Digital networks are not important because of their physical capacity to transmit on and off signals very rapidly, but because those signals are the building blocks of symbols that humans use to persuade, inform, and organize other humans into joining or refraining from collective action.

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Available Summaries | Cooperation Commons

Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation: Summaries and Findings | Cooperation Commons

Although Darwin's 19th century advocates stressed the role of competition in natural selection, Darwin established speculation about cultural evolution in regard to human cooperation: "It must not be forgotten that although a high standard of morality gives but slight or no advantage to each individual man and his children over other men of the tribe, yet that an increase in the number of well-endowed men and an advancement in the standard of morality will certainly give an immense advantage to one tribe over another.

Some of the most successful businesses in the world involve employees, customers and suppliers in their control. This paper describes why this is so and how stakeholder governance could be introduced into English speaking countries. The competitive advantages of establishing co-operative relationships with stakeholders are illustrated by analyzing a Japanese Keiretsu and the stakeholder co-operatives found around the Spanish town of Mondragon.

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An Introduction to Networks in the Global Village

Why does a debate about whether community exists persist, when the reality of community pervades our existence?

http://homes.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/globalvillage/in.htm

http://blog.ted.com/2007/09/11/steven_pinker/

11 September 2007 This week, Steven Pinker releases his latest book, The Stuff of Thought , about language as a window onto human nature.

Blog | The stuff of thought, the myth of violence: Steven Pinker on TED.com

Blog | The future of cooperation — and economic growth: Exclusive interview with Alex Tabarrok

http://blog.ted.com/2009/04/27/the_future_of_c/

Alex Tabarrok is co-author of hit economics blog Marginal Revolution . At TED2009, he talked about how a lesson from 1929 teaches us that ideas trump economic crises . The TED Blog interviewed Tabarrok over the phone to find out what else makes him optimistic about the future of economic development:

The best-selling author of "Nonzero," "The Moral Animal" and "The Evolution of God," Robert Wright draws on his wide-ranging knowledge of science, religion, psychology, history and politics to figure out what makes humanity tick -- and what makes us moral.

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