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truedelphi

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4. I find this a very decent article on "the cooperation theory"
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 05:50 PM
Nov 2012

However, I have no idea how anyone can state for certain whether our evolutionary ancestors were or weren't cooperative.

"No man is an island" and I think that was true long before John Dunne made the statement. It seems to me that any group of people, however primitive, must cooperate, especially if needing to share knowledge and availability of such resources as energy (think fire,) tools, trade, and "dating services."

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