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		<title>The Rise of Humanity</title>
		<link>http://joshedwards.com/2011/03/14/the-rise-of-humanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s New York Times article has nothing to do with Facebook, in fact, it&#8217;s 15,000 years older than the six year old social website.  Check out: &#8220;Supremacy of a ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Today&#8217;s New York Times article has nothing to do with Facebook, in fact, it&#8217;s 15,000 years older than the six year old social website.  Check out: &#8220;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/15/science/15humans.html">Supremacy of a Social Network</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s so amazing it was hard to find just one key quote:</p>
<blockquote><p>The two principal traits that underlie the human evolutionary success, in Dr. Hill’s view, are the unusual ability of nonrelatives to cooperate &#8211; in almost all other species, only closely related individuals will help each other &#8211; and social learning, the ability to copy and learn from what others are doing. A large social network can generate knowledge and adopt innovations far more easily than a cluster of small, hostile groups constantly at war with each other, the default state of chimpanzee society.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s the most concise report detailing the transition from primates to humans &#8211; it&#8217;s got it all from walking upright to tools to monogamy, to the building of societies.</p>
<p>Clever.</p>
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