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Damn near everything about human behavior makes more sense if you look at humans as almost eusocial like ants, where the meaningful unit of evolutionary fitness
by munificent 4y ago
Damn near everything about human behavior makes more sense if you look at humans as almost eusocial like ants, where the meaningful unit of evolutionary fitness is an entire tribe.
(My pet theory is that the entire reason humans have such insane metastasized intelligence relative to other species is that we got ourselves into an evolutionary arms race with ourselves where we needed greater and greater intelligence in order to distinguish in-group people in our tribe from bad actors in other tribes trying to exploit us. Ants are lucky because each colony just smells different.)