There are certain challenges we face that are best solved through self interested behavior, other challenges that can only be solved through collective action and co operation. The secret of our success is the name a book that talks about cultural evolution. Our ability to co operate at larger and larger scales has given us this incredible adaptive fitness. If you'd imagine a lone human confronting any challenge in the primitive world, you know, we'd get killed by a tiger or die from the cold. But you bring us together as a group,. suddenly we are extremely powerful and extremely intelligent.

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