Resources

Most of the resources one needs to understand the back-up to the RD Theory of Human Behavior are referenced in Being Human. As additional critical evidence appears I will add it  to the articles and books cited below:

• Wilson, Edward and Bert Holldobler, "Eusociality: Origin and Consequences",
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of American
  September 20, 2005, vol. 102, no. 38, pp. 13367-13371.

This article provides evidence that eusocial evolution in ants and termites is the strong binding force and displaces the standard kin-selection model. Eusociality has been rare in evolution, evidently due to the scarcity of environmental pressures adequate to tip the balance among countervailing forces in favor of group selection. This altruistic behavior among nestmates in ants and termites is the key to their ecological dominance. The article concludes by saying, "Rarity and the preeminence of group selection in unusual environments that favor cooperation are shared by the bathyergid rodents, the only highly eusocial phylad known in the vertebrates. Rarity of occurrence and unusual preadaptations characterized the early species of Homo and were followed, in a manner similar to the advancement of the ants and termites, by the spectacular ecological success and preemptive exclusion of competing forms by Homo sapiens." This article seems to turn the paradigm of evolutionary biology toward a unified theory of human behavior.

• Henrich, Joseph, R. Boyd, S. Bowles, C. Camerer, E. Fehr, H. Gintis, R. McElreath, M. Alvard A. Barr, F. Ensminger, N. Henrich, K. Hill, F. Gil-White, M. Gurven, F. Marlowe, J. Patton and D. Tracer,
  "'Economic man' in cross-cultural perspective: Behavioral experiments in 15 small-scale societies", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2005, 28, 795-855. This article is available on the website of Herbert Gintis.

This article reports on experiments conducted to test whether the findings of social sciences, that deviate from the predictions of the canonical model of self-interest,  hold up when conduced with a cross section of people living in small-scale societies that exhibit a wide variety of economic and cultural conditions. They found that the canonical model, based on self-interest, failed in all of the societies studied. This research is referred to in Being Human , but this is the definitive report of the entire line of research and includes commentaries from a number of perspectives. It seems to turn the paradigm of economics toward a unified theory of human behavior.

• Page, Karen, and Martin Nowak, "Empathy Leads to Fairness",
  Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 2002, 54, 1101-1116. This article is available on the website of Martin Nowak.

In this article the authors describe their computer simulations of the Ultimatum Game. Their runs show that empathy on the part of some players can lead to the evolution of fairness. Empathy, for them, means that individuals make offers which they themselves would be prepared to accept. Their  simulation runs closely match the actual behavior of humans who tend to offer 50% of the prize and to reject offers below 20%. This outcome is incontradiction to the rational strategy suggested by classical game theory which predicts that the proposer would offer the smallest possible positive share and that the responder would accept this offer.