"TomHendricks474"  wrote in message
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> <<  It was
> not until they began competing with themselves,
> community vs. community, that intellectual capacity
> became selectively advantageous. >>
>
>
> Male biologists stress male behavior as clues -
>  males compete.  (move against = option #2
> of my 4 options,  or
> fight of the 'fight or flight' social behaviors)
>
> But female biologists suggest
> cooperation behavior as clues -  females cooperate.
> (or move toward = option #1, or befriend of 'tend
> and befriend' social behaviors)
>
> Could it be the case that your scenario with isolated
communities could just as
> easily cooperate as compete?
>
> Wouldn't that be just as advantageous in many situations?

This is one of the points Robert Wright makes in his book,
Nonzero : The Logic of Human Destiny. Essentially, he posits
that it is almost a natural law that social organizations,
over long enough periods of time, tend towards increasing
degrees of (larger and larger) cooperative (complex) groups
(e.g., small groups --> tribes --> city-states--> nations,
etc,) through aquiring greater and greater "non zero
sumness," an outgrowth of game theory. In the rise of such
groups, there is often ongoing competition between
cooperative and competitive phases (e.g., wars and making
treaties, but the overall trend is inexorably toward
cooperation. Today, IMO, the next step would supposedly be
to a (peaceful) global society, and future steps, movement
towards planetary federations and then a pan-galactic
society. Wright, however, does not attempt to project any
further than one world. :)             ...tonyC
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