beyond what natural selection would favour Not really. The Social constructs are beneficial to gene survival. If a woolly mammoth injures you, I take care of

beyond what natural selection would favour Not really. The Social constructs are beneficial to gene survival. If a woolly mammoth injures you, I take care of you because I have a social bond that works both ways. Prehistoric me does not necessarily understand if the injury is permanent, but our bond is there to assume that the help I'm giving you will be conferred upon me or my offspring at some point. Love, cooperation, and compassion are (situationally) survival traits. When you consider further that individual survival isn't as important as genetic survival, you can see that social behaviors are selected for in animals capable of exhibiting them to some degree.