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Self-sacrifice as social signal (Commentary on H. Whitehouse: Dying for the group: Towards a general theory of extreme self-sacrifice)

J-L. Dessalles #1
#1 Laboratoire traitement et communication de l'information (LTCI)
  • Télécm ParisTech
  • Institut Mines-Télécom
  • Université Paris-Saclay
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences, December 2018, vol. 41, pp. e200
Abstract

Self-sacrifice can be modeled as a costly social signal carried to the ultimate extreme. Such signaling may be evolutionarily stable if social status is, in part, inherited.

Keywords
evolution, altruism, cooperation
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Article in peer reviewed Journal
Research Area(s)
Humanities and Social Sciences/Social Anthropology and ethnology
Life Sciences/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution
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Bibliographic key jld-18051302
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on january 16, 2019 by Jean-Louis Dessalles


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