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  • Michael Tomasello

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. tomasello@eva.mpg.de warneken@eva.mpg.de)

  • Felix Warneken

    (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany. tomasello@eva.mpg.de warneken@eva.mpg.de)

Abstract

The happy tendency to share resources equitably — at least with members of one's own social group — is a central and unique feature of human social life. It emerges, it seems, in middle childhood.

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  • Michael Tomasello & Felix Warneken, 2008. "Share and share alike," Nature, Nature, vol. 454(7208), pages 1057-1058, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:454:y:2008:i:7208:d:10.1038_4541057a
    DOI: 10.1038/4541057a
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    1. Cristiano Codagnone & Federico Biagi & Fabienne Abadie, 2016. "The Passions and the Interests: Unpacking the ‘Sharing Economy’," JRC Research Reports JRC101279, Joint Research Centre.
    2. Chan Liu & Raymond K. H. Chan & Maofu Wang & Zhe Yang, 2020. "Mapping the Sharing Economy in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-19, August.

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