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Humans are a social species. We drive to attach for our safety and it is our ability to

bond in a way that provides our core needs that allows us to survive.

We are not a species that very quickly can survive on our own.

We desperately need affiliations to survive.

It was the human species ability to form those robust, drawn hunter-gatherer collectives where the members each had each

other's backs, looked after each other, that allowed the human species for the first

190 200,000 years before we moved on to the kind of advanced agriculture that allowed for the contemporary city

states.

But for the vast bulk of our species history, we bonded to survive. We bonded in ways that we really felt other people

saw us, cared about us. If we were in pain, they would in some way rush to our aid.

They would share their resources.

If we were under attack, they would have our back.

If we were sick, they might nurse us to help health and so forth. It was that

that it was that those conditions that through essentially natural selection

are ancestors who were the most capable of bonding were the ones that survived long enough to pass on their genes and so over

time our species became an extremely social one. It's so important that there are various times in life

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