THE CO-EVOLUTION OF FAIRNESS PREFERENCES AND COSTLY PUNISHMENT.

The co-evolution of fairness preferences and costly punishment.

We study the co-evolutionary emergence of fairness preferences in the form of other-regarding behavior and its effect on the origination of costly punishment behavior in public good games.Our approach closely combines empirical results from three experiments with an evolutionary simulation model.In this way, we try to fill a gap between the Dressin

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The environmental footprint of Holocene societies: a multi-temporal study of trails in the Judean Desert, Israel

The global distribution of footpaths and their inferred antiquity implies that they are widespread spatial and temporal anthropogenic landscape units.Arid environments are of special interest for investigating historically used footpaths, as older routes may preserve better due to minimal modern impact and slower pedogenic processes.Here we examine

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HCNM at 20: The Challenges of Change - Continued

This conference marks the beginning of a series of events dedicated to the 20th anniversary of The Shorty the HCNM, and it seems fitting to deliver the first anniversary speech in the same place that Max van der Stoel delivered his first public speech as High Commissioner almost 20 years ago.When the leaders of the then-CSCE met in Helsinki in the

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