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Science 8 December 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5805, pp. 1555 - 1556
DOI: 10.1126/science.1136841
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Perspectives

EVOLUTION:
The Puzzle of Human Sociality

Robert Boyd

Human cooperation may have evolved as a consequence of genetic relatedness, culture, or language within groups.

The author is in the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA. E-mail: rboyd{at}anthro.ucla.edu

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