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SUBMITTER: Heaney M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5383808 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Heaney Megan M Gray Russell D RD Taylor Alex H AH
Royal Society open science 20170315 3
It has been suggested that inequity aversion is a mechanism that evolved in humans to maximize the pay-offs from engaging in cooperative tasks and to foster long-term cooperative relationships between unrelated individuals. In support of this, evidence of inequity aversion in nonhuman animals has typically been found in species that, like humans, live in complex social groups and demonstrate cooperative behaviours. We examined inequity aversion in the kea (<i>Nestor notabilis</i>), which lives i ...[more]