Making Peace With Other Groups

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Rob Witan: These are social tools to build trusts between strangers whom you should otherwise be leary of, because the world's a dangerous place. Andte people are also pretty good at making peace with other, with other groups. So we've surveyed hunter gatherers for the idea of the paper is that they can do things like driv game over cliffs and get things like that,. but also trade and make peace with other groups. E qer crossintote, great asen fo. Not much, i cu. National. ever been to that? Ever been to that?

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