title: Ultrasociality without group selection: Possible, reasonable, and likely.
abstract: It is uncontroversial that humans are extremely social, and that cultures have changed over time. But, the evidence shows that much of the social psychology underlying these phenomena (1) predates the agricultural transition, and (2) is not the result of group selection. Instead, this psychology appears intricately designed to capture social gains when possible in our complex ancestral social ecology.
authors: Department of Psychology,Harvard University,Cambridge, MA 02138.krasnow@fas.harvard.eduhttp://projects.iq.harvard.edu/epl/people/max-krasnow.
authors: Max M
authors: MM
authors: Krasnow
mesh_terms: D000383:Agriculture; D000818:Animals; D015186:Hominidae; D006801:Humans; D011593:Psychology, Social; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D012931:Social Environment