What Makes Us Different?

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The most important thing, if you look at homosaphiens, is our ability to cooperate reallya in unlimited numbers. Chimpanzees, elephants, dolphins, they can co operate may be in a few dozend individuals, but you can never find a thousand chimpanzees or ten thousand opins co operateon on anything. And that's because their co operation is built on intimate knowledge. One of the other. If you're a shimpanzine, i'm aShimpanzines and we want to hunt together on we want to fight together against some neighboring group, we need to have intimate knowledge. I mean, who are you? What's your personality?

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