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…
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