A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society
Obscuring knowledge of personal gains from individuals can theoretically maintain fairness in a cooperative group. Experiments show that wild, cooperatively breeding banded mongooses uncertain of kinship allocate postnatal care in a way that reduces inequality among offspring, suggesting a classic i...
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oai:doaj.org-article:99619083c4b1401cabc446a57d0fb5912021-12-02T17:45:09ZA veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society10.1038/s41467-021-23910-62041-1723https://doaj.org/article/99619083c4b1401cabc446a57d0fb5912021-06-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23910-6https://doaj.org/toc/2041-1723Obscuring knowledge of personal gains from individuals can theoretically maintain fairness in a cooperative group. Experiments show that wild, cooperatively breeding banded mongooses uncertain of kinship allocate postnatal care in a way that reduces inequality among offspring, suggesting a classic idea of moral philosophy can apply in biological systems.H. H. MarshallR. A. JohnstoneF. J. ThompsonH. J. NicholsD. WellsJ. I. HoffmanG. Kalema-ZikusokaJ. L. SandersonE. I. K. VitikainenJ. D. BlountM. A. CantNature PortfolioarticleScienceQENNature Communications, Vol 12, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021) |
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Obscuring knowledge of personal gains from individuals can theoretically maintain fairness in a cooperative group. Experiments show that wild, cooperatively breeding banded mongooses uncertain of kinship allocate postnatal care in a way that reduces inequality among offspring, suggesting a classic idea of moral philosophy can apply in biological systems. |
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A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society |
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A veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society |
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veil of ignorance can promote fairness in a mammal society |
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