Is There a Responsibilty?

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The idea that people, when you feel responsible for that, for dividuals welfare, you are more likely to take action to help them. There's probably a bit of it is down to thinking, well, ok, i can see it in that snario. But if it's not in that snarrio, maybe you don't feel that same responsibility,. That makes sense? Yes, that's right. I occasionally get asked to endorse some patrion accountor some project, a documentary film on science, or books for kids for exampled. So i actually do a hundred dollars or 200 dollars, or whatever. And then the first time i did this, i posted on

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.