I really disagree with this. We are not a species of dominance over partnership. We are a species that requires partnership to function, with mostly socially constructed competition for position within our greater society. But fundamentally we need each other equally. We live for two generations so that we can also raise the grandchildren with the parents. We have language to communicate and plan together. Many of us develop empathy and compassion fairly early on, making friends that don’t benefit us except for the delight of a peer. This is our basal nature. I would argue that systems of exploitation are the more unnatural state- racism must be taught from an early age, for example.
