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Arik Kershenbaum on Exo-Biology in 'The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy'

The Science in The Fiction

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The Complexity of Sociality

Living in groups is so, is such a familiar sight on earth. We think of it as being something so obvious and so natural but there's this hard mathematical evolutionary explanation for it which means it cannot be a peculiarity of life on earth. It just can't be because once again your offspring are the currency of evolution. You want your offspring to survive or more precisely those organisms who take care to make sure their offspring survive will spread through the population. Once you start looking after children, right, you've got a family. So really this is the basis of sociality is so universal. Whether or not that leads to the kinds of complex societies that we saw in our ancestors that eventually

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