This is the main obvious alternative to my intuition. (Apart from the extended-family thing? Never heard of that.)
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& you can test this with game theory experiments: get 100 anonymous strangers and make them play a many-person prisoner's dilemma. They will get the Nash equilibrium.
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Most empirical work shows evolutionary sensitivity to: the value of cooperation, signal/noise ratios, the cost & griefing ratio of punishment, retaliatory abilities, the ability to watch others, metanorms (related to punishing non-punishers and rewarding cops), etc, etc...
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yeah no army won where a bunch of strangers all just exhorted each other to be brave. It doesn't work, people see through the BS and head for the defect option.
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