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"In Cultural Evolution of Human Cooperation: Summaries and Findings, evolutionary anthropologists Robert Boyd, Joseph Henrich, and Peter Richerson argue that human cooperation has enormously beneficial social technology, which evolved culturally as behavioral and emotional traits that spread and persisted within groups. This is similar to how genetically endowed traits evolve over long time spans.25 (Richard Dawkins and Susan Blackmore, who have proposed and elaborated theories of "memes" — units of meaning that propagate via human minds and networks — have converged on similar ideas from an evolutionary perspective.)26 27"

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