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Part V: ARE HUMANS DIFFERENT?
Pages 299-302

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... First, neither women nor men delay reproduction in order to raise siblings. Although parents force daughters to care for extra siblings, this is better viewed as parental manipulation because the presence of siblings reduces survivorship.
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... To address social acts such as generosity, trust, fairness, and punishment, many purportedly relevant games have been applied to humans, one simple example being the Dictator Game that allows a subject to decide whether to share a quantifiable resource with an unseen other. [This game typically yields donations of 20–30% of the resource.]
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... is the key to human success, the characteristic that has made us so adaptable. Initially in human history, most adaptations involved direct climatic protection, food acquisition, and food storage.
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  • dictator game
  • colleagues argue
  • value themselves
  • bailey house

  • cooperative acts
  • own status
  • typically yields
  • joan silk
  • help rear

  • complex mix
  • food storage
  • vertebrate interactions
  • favor relatives
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  • nondescendent kin
  • indigenous religions
  • delay reproduction
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