The beginning of civilization

Right! Has no one paid attention to chimpanzees, baboons, or other primates? Recognizing those like yourself and working together is baked in. Even in species that are even farther away from us, in an evolution sense, we see cooperation.

Modern technological human history is only about a hundred years ..... we were cavemen and acting like scared children for about 50,000 years before and like frightened monkeys for 2 million years before that ... we may have landed on the moon but we are closer to our ancient ancestors than to any futuristic highly evolved human society.

We're more like cavemen with nuclear weapons.

Why it has up votes blows my mind.

Because it's funny? Honestly why your comment is so highly upvoted is blowing my mind, although I mean you no ill-will by that.

It's a comic strip, nobody is looking for historical accuracy here. The interaction is funny, that's it.

I agree, this is a load of shit. How do we know cavemen communicate in "good enough English" for us to understand?

It's a comic about cavemen. It can be entertaining and interesting without being a complete representation of early human society. That said afaik there is evidence people in prehistory killed each other a lot.

So let me get this straight your angry that this comic about cave men learning that being selfish doesn't work. Has people that don't understand that being selfish doesn't work.

I kind of read it more as the cavemen slowly coming to realize that they are both better off with mutual co-operation rather than that they are better off by simply being greedy, because the risk of the greed was too big. It was in their best self-interest to work with one another, i.e. they were both self-centered, and were still able to co-operate. Sort of some selfish gene type stuff, I guess.

Survival of the fittest is survival of those that cooperate

The question nobody ever asks about survival of the fittest is what actually makes someone fit to survive?

I don't doubt that some small (or not?) percentage of the population do think and act and vote this way.

The rest of us allow them to exist and breed and it will be the end of our species eventually.

They went from threatening to kill each other to sharing food, then contemplating trading more food in promise of later trades. This is a message of progress and cooperation. Extrapolating this forward, I have no doubt that this is the groundwork for the teamwork you describe. Any hesitancy along the way seems like no big deal to me.

Have you seen Trump?

Tbf if you think each person here represents their own tribe, it's not a farfetched story. Tribal warfare happens all the time.

It's normal for males, even in social species, to bully food from members weaker than them. Sharing food is a sign of accepting a lower status and avoiding conflict.

This is like TV bro chill

Oh I dunno. You should take a look at Sir Humphrey's monologues some time.

That's why all the funny movies are no more than five minutes long

Yeah, not like all those countries with peaceful histories like...um...little help here?

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Just carrying on the European tradition

I'm sorry but how is this extremely amarican. Like the Japanese also assist echother the Russians assist echother. I'm sure people in China and north Korea have friends that assist echother.

And also not having to worry about freezing to death. Or starving to death. Or dying from injury. Or dying from animals. Etc.

That's about all that "civilization" has truly brought us, a chance at more opportunities to steal and hate and kill each other.

They say, typing on a computer brought to them by civilization.