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MANY people have argued that humans are naturally cooperative. Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, the Dalai Lama, Russian zoologist and anarchist , neurobiologist and psychologist , among many others including myself, have all made the case that our animal nature is characterised as much by kindness and collaboration as it is by competition and carnage. Now, the prolific primatologist joins the fray to convince people that we are not such nasty creatures after all.
“Our animal nature is characterised as much by cooperation as it is by carnage”…
