(July 5, 2015 at 1:31 pm)Mr.wizard Wrote:(July 5, 2015 at 1:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Once you see a video of a cat protecting a kid from a dog, it becomes quite fucking obvious that morality is not unique to the human species.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzpvziYnBBk
I'm convinced
I hope that is not sarcasm, that literally is a display of evolution. I am not kidding. Our species ability to cooperate stems from prior evolution, primates and mammals cooperating. We stupidly see the video as merely being cute, but in a very real evolutionary context, THAT video is a literal demonstration of evolution.
We also see other species cooperation, ever see a long fish hovering around a shark? The fish cleans the shark and the shark evolved to accept the cleaning. Some birds and prey in Africa communicate and watch each other and warn of predators like lions.
Inner species cooperation is part of evolution. In a very real sense.
