Escaping the Tyranny of the Collective

Evolving to the Next Level (DN 4.9)

It is inconceivable that you would ever see two chimpanzees carrying a log together.
—Michael Tomasello

No man is an island.
—John Donne

We humans are, in the words of Duke University professor Michael Tomasello, an ”ultra-social” species. We are capable of interacting with a “shared intentionality” that is completely beyond even our closest genetic relativ…