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Blueprint: Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

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Nicholas A. Christakis(wikipedia) & (Yale)

Friendship is one of the keys to a good society, aka community.

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:

(1) Recognition of other individuals
(2) Love for partners and offspring
(3) Friendship
(4) Social networks
(5) Cooperation
(6) In-group bias
(7) Mild hierarchy (aka, egalitarianism)
(8) Social learning and teaching

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

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