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There's a concept I would leave here: temporal discrimination. The idea that (somehow) our forebears were so fundamentally different from us, and that we need to apply different standards in assessing.

Not so. The people are the same. 10000 years of civilisations (give or take) have hugely changed the conditions in which we live, but our basic make up was there.

Just look at the studies of Trinkaus on Neanderthal (Smithsonian). The presence of HEALED fractures indicate the cooperation.

Going a bit further back, to A. Afarensis, our famous skeleton "Lucy". One of the things all seem to agree is that she had advanced osteoarthritis of the hip. She should not have been able to survive to that stage.

How did she do it? Not alone.

A lone primate is a dead one. That is fact. People have a genuine need for one another, I'm not inventing the wheel.

We also have the sadism of chimps, the eroticism of bonobos, and many other things besides. I'm not saying anything you don't surely know.

Just saying.