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sexta-feira, junho 06, 2008

An exceptionally rapacious primate

"Aside from our individual intelligence, what really sets us apart from other species is our ability to cooperate, even with genetically unrelated strangers. This is perhaps the single most important factor behind our dominance of this planet. "The destruction of the natural world," as John Gray has written, "is not the result of global capitalism, industrialization, 'Western civilization,' or any flaw in human institutions. It is a consequence of the evolutionary success of an exceptionally rapacious primate." And what makes us especially rapacious is our ability to cooperate to do what none of us could ever achieve alone."
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Trecho retirado de "The social atom" de Mark Buchanan