id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-520 Cooperation - Wikipedia .html text/html 2308 259 56 Humans cooperate for the same reasons as other animals: immediate benefit, genetic relatedness, and reciprocity, but also for particularly human reasons, such as honesty signaling (indirect reciprocity), cultural group selection, and for reasons having to do with cultural evolution.[1] Cooperation is common in non-human animals. Besides cooperation with an immediate benefit for both actors, this behavior appears to occur mostly between relatives.[1] Spending time and resources assisting a related individual may at first seem destructive to the organism's chances of survival but is actually beneficial over the long-term. Studies conducted on red wolves support previous researchers'[8] contention that helpers obtain both immediate and long-term gains from cooperative breeding. Field evidence for direct benefits of helping behavior in a cooperatively breeding fish". "Kin Discrimination and the Benefit of Helping in Cooperatively Breeding Vertebrates". Herbert Gintis, Samuel Bowles, A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution, Princeton University Press, 2011, ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-520.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-520.txt