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Can Hunter-Gatherer Societies Teach Us About Cooperation?

We're big on teaching cooperative practices, even while we encourage competition. Humans are the only species to cooperate to the degree that we do, and this cooperation may have allowed for many other derived social traits related to group living to emerge, including generosity, sharing, teaching and learning, and shared intentionality.

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American


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