and the opportunity
of punishing individuals who misbehaved
directly, generally it’s
a very, very high cooperation level. Which is
why anthropologists, as
you said, tend to find
that cooperation is supportable in small groups
but in large groups it’s
very hard to do because
information
about
behavior becomes hard.
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Punishing, not just verbally, others, become
complicated, so this
mechanism becomes
very difficult.