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Our Tribal Future review: Is there a “vaccine” for tribalism?

Favouring insiders over outsiders now fuels conflict, argues David R. Samson in his new book. His cure for modern tribalism - create small camps of trusted people, echoing our evolutionary past

By Jonathan R. Goodman

10 November 2023

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“Smaller groups of collaborative partners are likely to be happier than those who try to go it alone”

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Our Tribal Future: How to channel our human instinct into a force for good
David R. Samson
Footnote Press

Just in case you missed them, in recent years social science researchers (myself included) have been falling over themselves to publish books purporting to help us overcome the more damning of human characteristics — bias, greed, nepotism and similar.

Taking perhaps a bolder approach, in Our Tribal Future: How to channel our human instinct into…

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