August 19, 2020 • 38 mins
We’ve been taught that evolution is a cruel and vicious struggle in which only the ruthless survive. But if you look a little more closely, the natural world is teeming with cooperation.
Not only that, but from single celled organisms right the way through to human civilisation, the scale of cooperation has been steadily increasing.
Can this shed any light on why humans find cooperation meaningful?
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