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“When children earn stickers or candies by working as a team, they withhold their goodies from children who didn't help but share with children who did. This might not seem very friendly—it might even seem like behavior you should correct: sharing is caring after all—but from an evolutionary standpoint, it's mission critical.”

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Book:The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy

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