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The dynamics of men's cooperation and social status in a small-scale society

Author(s) -

Christopher von Rueden,

Daniel Redhead,

Rick O’Gorman,

Hillard Kaplan,

Michael Gurven

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.342

H-Index - 253

eISSN - 1471-2954

pISSN - 0962-8452

DOI - 10.1098/rspb.2019.1367

Subject(s) - reciprocity (cultural anthropology) , kinship , nomination , social status , hierarchy , transitive relation , scale (ratio) , social psychology , sociology , psychology , economics , political science , geography , social science , mathematics , cartography , combinatorics , anthropology , law , market economy

We propose that networks of cooperation and allocation of social status co-emerge in human groups. We substantiate this hypothesis with one of the first longitudinal studies of cooperation in a preindustrial society, spanning 8 years. Using longitudinal social network analysis of cooperation among men, we find large effects of kinship, reciprocity and transitivity in the nomination of cooperation partners over time. Independent of these effects, we show that (i) higher-status individuals gain more cooperation partners, and (ii) individuals gain status by cooperating with individuals of higher status than themselves. We posit that human hierarchies are more egalitarian relative to other primates species, owing in part to greater interdependence between cooperation and status hierarchy.

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