(July 6, 2015 at 2:38 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote:(July 5, 2015 at 1:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote: 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.
There's a large mix of various animals sharing the same environment in Africa. When one sees a group of lions or other predators on the prowl for dinner it tends to get all excited and starts to make a lot of noise. The other animals see that commotion and take other to save their own hides. It might seem like a real mutual aid society but water buffalo wont come to the aid of a zebra colt. They will come to the aid of their own calf.
Yea, and no kidding. The problem with religion is that it takes our evolutionary behavior and turns it into Superman vs Lex Luther. Maybe if our species did a little bit less superstition and more thinking we could manage our differences better.
Mutual aid to society? AGAIN, in what context, you just gave it away. Mutual is local, but comes at the cost of our species understanding that we are NOT doing anything differently, and that lack of understanding of evolutionary behavior, being replaces with bullshit claims, causes lots of human division. Good for the group does not mean good for the long term survival of the entire species.
