"The evidence points to societies being a human universal. Human ancestors lived in fission-fusion groups that evolved, by simple steps, from individual recognition societies to societies set apart by markers. The ingroup-outgroup boundaries of society membership would have made it through this transition unaltered. That means that humans have always had societies. There was no original, authentic” human society, no time when people and families lived in an open social network before deciding to set themselves apart into well-defined groups.
While societies are not unique to humans, they are necessary to the human condition, having existed since ancient prehumans diverged on the evolutionary tree from other apes. A million human societies may well have come and gone. Every one has been a group closed to outsiders, a group that its members were willing to fight for and that at times they died for."
(From Mark W. Moffett : Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall)
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.One points of clarification:
We did not evolve from the apes. We evolved parallel to apes, chimps, and bonobos, not from. Our common ancestor with apes is a insectavore mammal living in the tree tops during the Cretaceous Era. During the Cretaceous or a short time afterward, the four branches of the Ape family diverged. They weren't apes yet.
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