
Trusting the Gold - A Celebration of Tara’s New Book, with guest, Rick Hanson
Tara Brach
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The Evolution of Compassion and Love
As our hominid and human ancestors evolved mainly living in small groups, the natural social structure for a human being is a band of roughly 40 to 50 people that live together most of their lives. In that context, bands that were better at cooperating at loving each other broadly, they were better at language,. They were better at empathy, they werebetter at bonding, they wereBetter at altruism. Those bands did better, they kept their members alive more who could pass on genes that passed on genes over millions of years. Do you think we're still evolving? Is it just the way it evolved because it was needed for us to collaborate with our in-group so we could do well
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