Did early humans socialise to avoid getting eaten?

New computer simulations lend further support the notion that cooperation helped early humans escape becoming prey for other animals, researchers report.

The work suggests that teamwork could have given Australopithecus – a group of hominids closely related to humans – an important advantage over their cousins Paranthropus, contributing to their extinction.

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More "junk" science............

I can write a computer "simulation" that proves man came from a lost alien food source placed here by large 9 legged insects that rode intergalactic tricycles from galaxy to galaxy. Then the humans escaped one day before dinner and the rest is history.

This is not science it is fantacy.................

Lol ...

Everything seem's to be junk science to you.

Yes, it's total junk that cooperation can tip the balance in favor of early man. Complete total junk. We should all be loners instead.

If you think all science is junk, then why do you keep posting this junk?

I would like to see this computer simulation of yours. Sounds neat. Did Tom Cruise help you write it? What type of supercomputers are you running it on? Are you sure you got all your variables right? Did you remember to activate the improbability drive?

Ah well. I guess the notion that such ignorance could ever recede is the true fantaSy.

Originally posted by apc
If you think all science is junk, then why do you keep posting this junk?

I would like to see this computer simulation of yours. Sounds neat. Did Tom Cruise help you write it? What type of supercomputers are you running it on? Are you sure you got all your variables right? Did you remember to activate the improbability drive?

Ah well. I guess the notion that such ignorance could ever recede is the true fantaSy.

I even included the diameter of the plasmawheels on the tricycles.

The science makes sense to me....we are a social race. Look at the advantages of pact hunters in the wild. Im sure this will have the same effect for defence.

IMHO