Andy’s Quick Hits (233): Unique Social Genes in Human Beings

Andy Hab
2 min readJun 14, 2022

One differentiating factor with human beings is our pro-sociality. This means we are a social species, and this sociality is seen in our ability to empathise, be socially tolerant, but also in our cooperation, and altruism.

The question then comes: what drives this behaviour and is this really different to other species?

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Andy Hab

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