The physical similarities between humans and other primates are obvious, while the behavioral similarities are not always as apparent. Group solidarity and the concept of a homeland; the social bonds forged by motherhood, sex, friendship, and social hierarchies; the flexibility of the fission-fusion society; the advantages of exogamy; and the rudiments of hunting, warfare, tools, weapons, customs, and traditions all exist among non-human primates. These are the genetic building blocks of human behavior. Without them, human society would have never evolved, and the world we live in would have
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