Is There a Remains of Co-Operation?

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Brom a: Why question of why the niandertals wen't exstankte their brains are just as big as ours, maybe even a little bigger. Could be they just got out competed by us, or just outred by us by a tiny little persants. Who knows? Maybe they weren't quite as co operative in social groups as as almos sapiens. But god, wt, if you haven't thought i dat as lucky. I think it's fair thing. It's so hard to look for that in our fossil record,. And so to lat on that is s it's not really easy.

Cooperation is the means by which life arose in the first place. It’s how we progressed through scale and complexity, from free-floating strands of genetic material, to nation states. But given what we know about the mechanisms of evolution, cooperation is also something of a puzzle. How does cooperation begin? A biologist by training, Nichola Raihani looks at where and how collaborative behavior emerges throughout the animal kingdom, and what problems it solves. She reveals that the species that exhibit cooperative behavior — teaching, helping, grooming, and self-sacrifice — most similar to our own tend not to be other apes; they are birds, insects, and fish, occupying far more distant branches of the evolutionary tree. By understanding the problems they face, and how they cooperate to solve them, we can glimpse how human cooperation first evolved. And we can also understand what it is about the way we cooperate that has made humans so distinctive and so successful.