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> and yes, the role of bananas may be exaggerated here

Tried to be funny. It seems I've failed. It's not about that banana.

Point was that our social structures can be explained by some first principles e.g. individuals try to acquire enough resources (what a trivial assertion, but I guess that is the point of first principles) and that we can explain the origin of our social structures with them.

Fun fact: It is not very common for monkeys to eat bananas in the wild - they simply don't have them [1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/wild-monkeys-do-not-eat-banan...

Totally OT: wild birds cooperate with humans to get some honey. I love such articles. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/21/486471339/ho...




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