The Social Suite
topics: society
At the core of all societies, I will show, is the social suite:
- The capacity to have and recognize individual identity
- Love for partners and offspring
- Friendship
- Social networks
- Cooperation
- Preference for one’s own group (that is, “in-group bias”)
- Mild hierarchy (that is, relative egalitarianism)
- Social learning and teaching
— Nicholas Christakis, 2019
From the book Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
