Question: Our societies are built on cooperation, mutual trust, and social networks. That’s hardly the law of the jungle. So how did we get that way? Why are we monogomous, pro-social, empathic creatures? Why did altruism evolve in humans?
Answer: (one answer, at least) So that soldiers would willingly go off to war.
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