For all of human history humans have had to compete with other animals for resources. Within the human species societies have competed with each other for resources.
But within human societies, with the exception of the last 500 years, those societies were governed mostly by cooperation. The article explains how cooperation operates in single-cell organisms, plants, bonobo and chimp primates. Challenging Dawkins’ individualist picture of human gene competition, David Sloan Wilson shows how selection at a group level is based on cooperation.
Read more in Counter Currents
