No chimpanzee can join a crowd of unfamiliar chimps without setting off a killing frenzy. But ants tolerate strangers in their societies—and so do humans
Building giant communities of strangers requires ‘markers’ that let members know who does and doesn’t belongA quick way to understand how humans are different from most other mammals that live in societies is to observe what happens when one of us enters a crowded coffee shop: basically, nothing.
No random chimpanzee could stumble across a crowd of unfamiliar chimps without reacting in fear or setting off a killing frenzy. People, by contrast, are fundamentally more comfortable with strangers. We had to be, for our planet-dominating societies to expand into populations in the tens and hundreds of millions.
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