Social Conventions, Institutions, and Human Uniqueness: Lessons from Children and Chimpanzees

摘要: Cooperative behavior has become conventionalized and institutionalized over the course of human evolution. When faced with situations in which we desire to coordinate others, adopt social conventions such as driving on a particular side road, adhere these for reasons: expect others to, they us this is common knowledge our cultural community. Many practices have also via processes formal codification symbolic mediation, resulting instance, traffic laws road signs. And normative quality that there may be penalties non-adherence.