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ORIGINS OF THE SOCIAL CONTRACT
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change.
—CHARLES DARWIN
Most—though not all—of the pieces are on the table now. A pattern of why and how humans act as they do is beginning to emerge. In this chapter, we need to put a few last pieces in place, step back, and see if the pattern is complete and if the mystery is, at least tentatively, solved. What was the mechanism that turned humans into social beings that universally forge social contracts to order their relationships?
HOW THE DRIVES EVOLVED
In Chapter Four, we discussed the issue of how the independent drive to bond could have evolved in the Upper Paleolithic period in a way that was ...
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