Well, we are a relatively weak race. Even on our own planet, we're not that strong in comparison to other carnivores. However, we've learned cooperating with a group provides protection, and we want to feel safe. Being deprived of that group is pretty unsettling.
Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist that compared the brain sizes and structures of primates in comparison to their groups. The number of people in a group that human brains would work well with has been debated being between 150 and 200 some. This is people we familiarize ourselves with. That we care about their names or what's going to happen to them.
That's one of the reasons we end up forming prejudices too. It's easier apply a personality to a group of individuals if you can't contemplate each one individually. For us, that is. [And it's something he depends on for his line of work.]
I think we have a problem realizing where the group is useful, and where it's not.
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Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist that compared the brain sizes and structures of primates in comparison to their groups. The number of people in a group that human brains would work well with has been debated being between 150 and 200 some. This is people we familiarize ourselves with. That we care about their names or what's going to happen to them.
That's one of the reasons we end up forming prejudices too. It's easier apply a personality to a group of individuals if you can't contemplate each one individually. For us, that is. [And it's something he depends on for his line of work.]
I think we have a problem realizing where the group is useful, and where it's not.