Is that the natural state of the world? Seems like group cooperation is the natural state and our ability to collaborate in larger groups than any other species

Is that the natural state of the world? Seems like group cooperation is the natural state and our ability to collaborate in larger groups than any other species is what allowed us to rise to the top. Excessive individual competition leads to both combatants taking injuries and then dying of infection or being too weak to fend off predators. See: flocks of birds, ant colonies, prides of lions, shoals of fish, pods of whales, any social, religious, military or financial grouping of humans, clownfish living with sea anemone, birds cleaning crocodile teeth, hermit crabs finding empty shells, bees pollinating plants etc