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We are herd-like animals who show a strong tendency to conform with group norms; what makes our brains so much bigger than other primates is this remarkable capacity for social skills such as empathy, co-operation and fairness. Instead of the old metaphor of individuals as discrete entities like billiard balls, we need to think instead of them as nodes in a relationship network.

— In control? Think again. Our ideas of brain and human nature are myths | Madeleine Bunting | Comment is free | The Guardian

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