Collaboration helps people escape

The new view suggests that early humans were hunted species. ( Photo: BBC ) Anthropologists have proposed a new theory that the first generation of people learned to live in groups and cooperate to avoid species. carnivorous prey animals

Previously, science believed that people of millions of years ago lived together to be able to hunt animals more effectively. But now a new theory says that the reason people live together is to avoid being eaten.

Professor Robert Sussman, an anthropologist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, said at a conference that avoiding being killed is the most important factor in how people learn to cooperate with each other.

According to him, traces show that humans at that time had not enough teeth to eat, and if they were unable to eat meat, then why did they actively hunt.

" The prevailing view is that people at that time were hunters, but in fact they were hunted breeds. The intelligence, cooperation and other human characteristics evolved from the efforts to escape from like prey . "

James Rilling, at Emory University in Atlanta, used imaging techniques into the brain to examine the biological mechanism behind collaboration.

He observed the brains of game players under experimental conditions in which there was a choice between cooperation and non-cooperation.

He found cooperation to be beneficial, and people reacted negatively when the partner refused to cooperate.

In contrast, the closest species to us, chimpanzees, don't come to help other children, even if helping doesn't make them suffer.