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David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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The Evolution of Social Control in Chimpanzees

In non-human primates like gorillas, if a subordinate male sneaks up on a silverback and does something to him and then he gets pummeled, no one will come to his aid. So this reciprocity is also another species. And what happened in humans is basically a much greater capacity for members of the group to collectively suppress self-serving individuals.

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