@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt7s72v.9, ISBN = {9780691158167}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7s72v.9}, abstract = {Could strong reciprocity, fair-mindedness, and other altruistic and ethical preferences documented in Chapter 3 be the legacy of an evolutionary past in which individuals behaving in these ways had higher fitness than they would have had had they been entirely amoral and self-regarding? Trivers (2007) reasons that “unfair arrangements... may exact a very strong cost in inclusive fitness. In that sense, an attachment to fairness or justice is self-interested” (p. 77). If Trivers is correct, fair-mindedness could have become common among humans if it benefited the individual or close relatives in repeated interactions, allowing fair-minded individuals to gain reputations that}, bookauthor = {Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis}, booktitle = {A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution}, pages = {93--110}, publisher = {Princeton University Press}, title = {Ancestral Human Society}, year = {2011} }