EVOLUTION’S TEST OF RECIPROCITY 1) Dominance hierarchy: Fitness giving access to

EVOLUTION’S TEST OF RECIPROCITY

1) Dominance hierarchy: Fitness giving access to opportunities, allies, and mates.

2) Possible Means of Coercion: Force (threat, punishment, murder), Remuneration (Trade, deprivation from trade), Gossip (rallying, shaming, lionizing)

3) Demonstrated Merit using possible Means of Coercion: Violence, Productivity, Bribery, Voluntary Exchange, Fraud, Theft, Free-Riding.

4) Only Coercive means not in violation of Reciprocity: Productive, Fully informed, voluntary Exchange, free of imposition of costs upon that which has previously been obtained by exchange.

5) Single empirical cause of moral reactions: violations of or advancement of, reciprocity.

6) Single evolutionary instinct necessary for the persistence of cooperation reciprocity.

7) Only possible test of Morality: Reciprocity.

8) Function of evolution: suppress the reproduction of those that cannot meet the tests of reciprocity.