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[Unedited] Nicholas Christakis with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

CHAPTER

The Solution to Tribalism

Evolution has given us other solutions to the problem of co-operating. For example, we have a capacity for friendship and that allows people to work together. But tribalism is another solution because it lowers the sense of scale. And in adding network structure of a particular kind allows them to work together. Again, incidentally, elephants with whom we share an ancestor five million years ago, they also have evolved social networks. So that's another way of doing it.

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