Chimpanzees or children - who is better at cooperating?
Channel: OpenEvo
Date: 2021-10-27

In this video we present a set of experiments that were conducted by evolutionary psychologist Rebecca Koomen at the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. 
We want to know from you what your predictions about the outcomes of the experiments are - which species will be more successful at cooperating in these experiments?

More information: 
Lesson plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o62eDQXFpm1-lDPzF1MgNapQ8KEIU9Eo_gYwUFiXWbk/edit?usp=sharing 

Publications that this lesson is based on:
Hanisch, S., & Eirdosh, D. (2021). Are Humans a Cooperative Species? Challenges & Opportunities for Teaching the Evolution of Human Prosociality. The American Biology Teacher, 83(6), 356–361. https://doi.org/10.1525/abt.2021.83.6.356 

Koomen, R., & Herrmann, E. (2018). Chimpanzees overcome the tragedy of the commons with dominance. Scientific Reports, 8(1), 10389. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-28416-8

Koomen, R., & Herrmann, E. (2018). An investigation of children’s strategies for overcoming the tragedy of the commons. Nature Human Behaviour, 2, 348–355. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-018-0327-2