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Social networks and cooperation in hunter-gatherers

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https://doi.org/10.1038/nature10736
Abstract

The social networks of Hadza hunter-gatherers are structurally similar to modern social networks and show signs of clustering in cooperative behaviour, which suggests that these networks may have contributed to the emergence of cooperation in early humans.

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