[wcummings]

But people socialize in ways that are very different from apes. Humans are so deeply social by nature that we make other monkies look psychopathic by comparison. Show me an ape that performs charity to save other species. People clearly have a much deeper capacity for altruism, and form much much larger better integrated colonies than apes. We don't necessarily need to pick losers, humans are naturally willing to make sacrifices for the group even at the expense of their own individual reproduction.

Groups of people are more like insects than apes. Millions of apes could never coexist together the way human cities or ant colonies do.