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The Evolution of Friendship
In a tough environment like the Ice Age, it was simply not adaptive to be an asshole. So friendliness was an adaptive trait. And sometimes another word that we use here is domestication because we've done something similar to our sheep and our cows. We've selected them for tainness, you know, it's another form of friendliness.