Are the roots of human economic systems shared with non-human primates?

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dc.contributor.authorAddessi, Elsa
dc.contributor.authorBeran, Michael J.
dc.contributor.authorBourgeois-Gironde, Sacha
dc.contributor.authorBrosnan, Sarah F.
dc.contributor.authorLeca, Jean-Baptiste
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-30T21:10:22Z
dc.date.available2022-06-30T21:10:22Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionAccepted author manuscripten_US
dc.description.abstractWe review and analyze evidence for an evolutionary rooting of human economic behaviors and organization in non-human primates. Rather than focusing on the direct application of economic models that a priori account for animal decision behavior, we adopt an inductive definition of economic behavior in terms of the contribution of individual cognitive capacities to the provision of resources within an exchange structure. We spell out to what extent non-human primates’ individual and strategic decision behaviors are shared with humans. We focus on the ability to trade, through barter or token-mediated exchanges, as a landmark of an economic system among members of the same species. It is an open question why only humans have reached a high level of economic sophistication. While primates have many of the necessary cognitive abilities (symbolic and computational) in isolation, one plausible issue we identify is the limits in exerting cognitive control to combine several sources of information. The difference between human and non-human primates’ economies might well then be in degree rather than kind.en_US
dc.description.peer-reviewYesen_US
dc.identifier.citationAddessi, E., Beran, M. J., Bourgeois-Gironde, S., Brosnan, S. F., & Leca, J.-B. (2020). Are the roots of human economic systems shared with non-human primates? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.12.026en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/6256
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.publisher.institutionISTC-CNRen_US
dc.publisher.institutionGeorgia State Universityen_US
dc.publisher.institutionInstitut Jean-Nicoden_US
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Lethbridgeen_US
dc.publisher.urlhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2019.12.026en_US
dc.subjectEconomic behaviouren_US
dc.subjectNon-human primate economicsen_US
dc.subjectEconomic gamesen_US
dc.subjectBehavioral economicsen_US
dc.subjectToken-mediated exchangeen_US
dc.subjectBarteren_US
dc.subjectProto-monetary behavioren_US
dc.subjectValue representationen_US
dc.subjectSelf-controlen_US
dc.subjectDelay of gratificationen_US
dc.subjectNumerosityen_US
dc.subjectRisk pronenessen_US
dc.subject.lcshPrimates--Behavior
dc.subject.lcshEconomics--Psychological aspects
dc.subject.lcshToken economy (Psychology)
dc.titleAre the roots of human economic systems shared with non-human primates?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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