Also Quote by Clay Shirky

Most of our social nature is like that of other primates - we're mostly out for ourselves.

— Jonathan Haidt

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.

— Frans de Waal

Primates are super smart and organized just enough to devote their free time to being miserable to each other and stressing each other out.

— Robert Sapolsky

Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The human animal has evolved as a preeminently social animal.

— Leon Kass

The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like…

— Frans de Waal

Our species likes being social.

— John Cho

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions…

— Jane Goodall

When it comes to social interaction, the chimpanzees appear to be just as intelligent as we are.

— Frans de Waal

Human beings are social animals. We were social before we were human.

— Peter Singer

We're not just social animals in the conventional way that people think. It's not just a bunch of us who hang out together. We…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our…

— Michael Shermer