The Food Sharing Thing, You Know?

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CNN's John Defterios talks to Christopher bone about the idea of co-operation. He says people, by nature, don't really want a share or it's just that eve body is pretty much dirt poor so we have to kind of share. In our current very conservative government, i'm not that sure that actually meritocracy is necessarily one of the really lauded principles in a conservative,. er government, at least not that we have, i don't think, at the moment.

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.