The theory was written by ya boi :kropotkin-shining: in his 1902 essay Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution but that's not gonna mean anything to a chud.
Basically, one of humans largest evolutionary advantages over even other higher primates is just how much we help each other.
Tool making and creative problem solving aren't actually that unique in Animalia. Lots of different species do them to varying degrees.
The two most unique things about humans, evolutionary speaking, especially compared to other primates and even other hominids is that we share information, teach and learn skills from not only our family members but our peers, and that we have developed the most complex languages and societies we've ever discovered on this planet to facilitate that.
Screwing people over feels shitty, helping people feels good. That's human nature.
Our ability to organise on a massive scale (surpassed by ants, arguably the other most successful species on the planet) and share altruistically is what has allowed humans to dominate Earth. That we've somehow managed to use those complex communication and organisation abilities to override our natural drive to altruism is deeply ironic, utterly unnatural and the largest threat we, as a species have ever faced.
The theory was written by ya boi :kropotkin-shining: in his 1902 essay Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution but that's not gonna mean anything to a chud.
Basically, one of humans largest evolutionary advantages over even other higher primates is just how much we help each other.
Tool making and creative problem solving aren't actually that unique in Animalia. Lots of different species do them to varying degrees.
The two most unique things about humans, evolutionary speaking, especially compared to other primates and even other hominids is that we share information, teach and learn skills from not only our family members but our peers, and that we have developed the most complex languages and societies we've ever discovered on this planet to facilitate that.
Screwing people over feels shitty, helping people feels good. That's human nature.
Our ability to organise on a massive scale (surpassed by ants, arguably the other most successful species on the planet) and share altruistically is what has allowed humans to dominate Earth. That we've somehow managed to use those complex communication and organisation abilities to override our natural drive to altruism is deeply ironic, utterly unnatural and the largest threat we, as a species have ever faced.