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Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.

Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.

Human beings are social animals; we devote a significant portion of our brain just to dealing with interactions with other humans.

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We have a very specific pattern of ties, and they have a particular shape and structure that is encoded in our genes. It means that human beings have evolved to live their lives embedded in social networks.

In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

Through the evolutionary process, those who are able to engage in social cooperation of various sorts do better in survival and reproduction.

The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.