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The Moral Herd: Groups and the Evolution of Altruism and Cooperation

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The Moral Herd:
Groups and the Evolution
of Altruism and Cooperation
T
he M
oral H
erd: G
roups and the Evolution of A
ltruism
 and C
ooperation    Julián G
arcía
Julián García
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Research Series
This thesis studies the evolution of human helping behaviour. It looks at
the evolution of specific features of human social preferences, and
proposes formal models to provide ultimate explanations for these.
The thesis contains four essays that deal with related, but separate topics. 
The first essay studies the evolution of cooperation and group formation
in large groups of unrelated individuals. The second essay considers the 
evolution of discriminatory behaviour in cooperative interactions. The third 
essay deals with the evolution of cooperation in repeated games. Finally, 
the fourth essay examines the interplay between repeated interactions and 
population structure. A common ground for all the models proposed in
this thesis is that agents use strategies that go beyond simple cooperation
or defection, and that selection takes place at multiple levels (multilevel 
selection). Studying the richness of our behaviour provides insight into
the origin of our social preferences.
Julián García studied computer science and engineering at the National 
University of Colombia, in Bogotá. In 2006 he started to work on his PhD 
dissertation at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, VU 
University Amsterdam. From 2008 he also held a guest position at CREED, 
the Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political
Decision-making, University of Amsterdam. In November 2010, he
became employed as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for
Evolutionary Biology, in Germany. His main research interests include
Evolution, Human Behaviour and Evolutionary Dynamics.
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