I've Evolved. Tribes Have Real Benefits in Our Primate Past

"I was a spectator. What if I had known him? If he'd been a friend or a family member, I wouldn't have just sat there," she says. "He wanted to do the right thing. He didn't intend to inconvenience the rest of us." The behavior and attitude that stem from strong loyalty to one-zone tribe or social group tribalism is an inward-focused group consciousness. And so very often an interest and promotion of our interests over all others.