In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence.
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Evolutionary theory informs our understanding of some frankly inexcusable social behavior and renders it perfectly normal.
Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
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 fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.
Human beings are social creatures - not occasionally or by accident but always. Sociability is one of our lives as both cause and effect.
There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.
You have to look at history as an evolution of society.
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
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