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> Humans don’t have that. I can cooperate with you guys. One of you is a Serbian. The other one is a Persian by origin. And I’m Indian by origin. We have very l
by dataangel 5y ago
> Humans don’t have that. I can cooperate with you guys. One of you is a Serbian. The other one is a Persian by origin. And I’m Indian by origin. We have very little blood in common, basically none. But we still cooperate.
I'm not a geneticist and I'm having trouble conjuring the right search terms to find a source, but I seem to recall reading not too long ago that all humans are more related to each other on average than members of most other species, because we very "recently" (still millions of years) went through a near-extinction event, making our gene pool less diverse than most other species because everybody alive today comes from the few people that survived that event. So altruism in most animals is actually more impressive than altruism in humans.
- Teledhil 5y agoOnly 75000 years ago, but maybe the Toba eruption? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Genetic_bottleneck_in_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory#Geneti...
- mkl 5y agoIt may be way more recent than that, more like 3000 years: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#TMRCA_of_all_living_humans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Most_recent_common_ancestor#TM... - https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040930122428.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040930122428.h...
- nine_k 5y agoAssuming that the Indian speaks Hindi, all three languages are Indo-European, assuming even closer historically recent ties.