I watched National Geography just now. watched the research on the human baby behaviour and chimpanzee behaviour on cooperation.
The result: Chimpanzee will cooperate, but when it comes to helping other without getting anything they will not tolerate. Human baby, they are born with the spirit of cooperation even without getting anything in return.
They came out with a conclusion that human can help each other without being calculative.
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I doubt that.
Fair enough, when all of us aren't competing against each other, we are good, and sure, we work together. But, when it comes to some competition, humans are ugly.
See all the politics around us. See all the warfare out there. They all arose because human can't tolerate with one another. They can't compromise for the opponents' need. They aren't cooperative.
2 person, who don;t know each other, at their hungriest possible state. When suddenly a piece of small bun is given to them, do you think they will share among themselves?
for me, human can't be standardized. Humans are not equally born. How can they concluded on a certain behaviour by only taking a baby's behaviour into account? How can they don't take enough sample? Why they don't choose adults as the sample? Aren't they hypocrite that to get their desired result, they choose only the promising sample? What's the use of the experiment then?
At least chimpanzee is straight forward, human? You will never know what's one thinking. AT this instance he is helping you, but the next instance you know, he has taken advantage from you.
BTW, do you know that there is only one DNA mutation in the past that made human superior to chimpanzee? It's the DNA of our jaw muscle which is so much weaker than theirs, but then, it allowed a bigger brain capacity to be developed, thus made us superior. ^
Sunday, October 12, 2008
cooperative behaviour
written by chanzhe at 2:02 AM
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