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In northern areas, it also takes more than one human to raise an infant. No wonder monogamy tends to be a practice of the north, while polygamy is a custom of the prodigal south.

millions of years of selection have left the finches very, very close to where they started.

Thus the scout bees make use of the power of communication to help good ideas spread while at the same time they avoid the risk of creating an information cascade about an inferior site. By evaluating sites independently, they invest their attention wisely.

they have inherited something important from their wolflike ancestors—an interest in being around others and in paying attention to what those others are doing.

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Social mammals such as elephants and chimpanzees cooperate far more flexibly than bees, but they do so only with small numbers of friends and family members.

But human nature was also shaped as groups competed with other groups.

“don’t treat them as individuals. A colony of bees is a single superorganism.