Describes the "Social Suite" as a set of traits linked to genetics that gives us society. Very well researched. His lab's fascinating research: Robots that are chatty about mistakes working with human teams make the team performance more effective.
The Social Suite: (original)
(1) The capacity to have and recognize individual identity
(2) Love for partners and offspring
(3) Friendship
(4) Social networks
(5) Cooperation
(6) Preference for one's own group (that is, "in-group bias")
(7) Mild hierarchy (that is, relative egalitarianism)
(8) Social learning and teaching
jch.com/jch/notes/ChristakisBlueprint.html 2019-04-21 YON Book Notes