Cooperation and morality are distinct categories.

Evidence

Not all cooperative behavior, whether mutualistic or altruistic, is moral behavior. After all, cooperation is common in and across many living species, including plants and bacteria, to which no one is tempted to attribute a moral sense. Among humans, kin altruism and friendship are two cases of cooperative behavior that is not necessarily moral (which is not to deny that being a relative or a friend is often highly moralized). — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 15

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes a crisp definitional boundary: cooperation ≠ morality, important for separating genuinely moral behavior from mere mutualism/altruism.
• XREF: connects to: Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 266; Morality evolved because fair partners were preferred in cooperative interactions — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 4; Morality evolves in two steps, from selfish reciprocity to intrinsic fairness. — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality: The…, 73 (+2 more)

Related

• Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. (similarity 0.87)
• Morality is about fair cooperation, not maximizing welfare. (similarity 0.87)
• Morality requires mutual advantage, not strict accounting of reciprocated acts. (similarity 0.85)
• Morality evolves from individual partner-choice competition, not group selection. (similarity 0.85)
• Morality may have evolved via partner choice over partner control (similarity 0.85)
• Morality evolves in two steps, from selfish reciprocity to intrinsic fairness. (similarity 0.84)
• Morality evolved because fair partners were preferred in cooperative interactions (similarity 0.83)
• A genuine moral sense evolved to secure reputation as a cooperator (similarity 0.83)
• Morality extends beyond fairness among strangers to relational obligations (similarity 0.82)
• Moral norms differ by relationship type, not by one universal strategy. (similarity 0.82)
• Partner-choice cooperation theory does not explain the intrinsic moral sense. (similarity 0.82)
• Morality is an evolved sense of fairness, not a late intellectual achievement (similarity 0.82)
• Fairness is self-interested because stingy partners get abandoned. (similarity 0.82)
• Partner selection produces genuine moral feelings, not just narrow self-interested cooperation. (similarity 0.81)
• Mutualistic anthropology explains moral anger as an evolved fairness-restoring mechanism (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Morality evolved as a propensity for fair cost-benefit sharing among cooperators. #contradicts (0.78) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 266
• Opening with cooperation is rational self-interest, not mere morality #exemplifies (0.78) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 544
• Morality evolved because fair partners were preferred in cooperative interactions #qualifies (0.72) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 4
• Morality evolves in two steps, from selfish reciprocity to intrinsic fairness. #complicates (0.72) — Nicolas Baumard, A mutualistic approach to morality, 73
• Moralizing supernatural agents help sustain cooperation at scales beyond natural limits #expands (0.72)