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The Patterning Instinct
The work in anthropology is really quite recent the last 40 or 50 years probably even the last 20 or 30 that's become consensus about that level of cooperation in early hominids versus other other other animals. The evidence we now have that early Gather a Hunter bands are extremely egalitarian and this comes with what we would call civilization over eight thousand nine thousand years of human history after we kind of fell from Eden as it were so I think that's absolutely fascinating.