Michael Tomasello On the Surprising Origins of Communication and Cooperation
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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The Dark Side of Cooperation
In human evolution, there are two main ways that people feel solidarity for one another. The first is by doing things together and having shared experiences. And secondly, later in human evolution, we began forming cultures where we had people that we'd never met before. They're sometimes called in-group strangers, but they're still in group, they're still one of us. That's based on similarity, similarity of behavior and action.
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