We review and analyze evidence for an evolutionary rooting of human economic behaviors and organization in non-human primates
2020
Key concepts
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- pmid:31874185
- Primates*
- economic system
- decision behavior
- strategic decision
- Gov't
- direct application
- economic behavior
- Jean-Baptiste Leca
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- extent non
- Behavior
- exchange structure
- individual cognitive
- Research Support
- Humans
- animal decision
- economic model
- Review
- National Center for Biotechnology Information
- Decision Making*
- Elsa Addessi
- physiology
- evolutionary rooting
- Non-U.S
- Behavioral*
- Executive Function*
- cognitive capacity
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- Animal*
- Delay Discounting*
- inductive definition
- Michael J Beran
- priori account
- non human primate
- Animals
- National Institutes of Health
- Economics
- Mathematical Concepts*
- NCBI
- National Library of Medicine
- Non-P.H.S.
- human economic
- MEDLINE
- PubMed Abstract
- text link
Scholarcy highlights
- We review and analyze evidence for an evolutionary rooting of human economic behaviors and organization in non-human primates
- Rather than focusing on the direct application of economic models that a priori account for animal decision behavior, we adopt an inductive definition of economic behavior in terms of the contribution of individual cognitive capacities to the provision of resources within an exchange structure
- We spell out to what extent non-human primates' individual and strategic decision behaviors are shared with humans
- We focus on the ability to trade, through barter or token-mediated exchanges, as a landmark of an economic system among members of the same species
- It is an open question why only humans have reached a high level of economic sophistication
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