#390 – Yuval Noah Harari: Human Nature, Intelligence, Power, and Conspiracies

1750.474 - 1775.169 Yuval Noah Harari

And what really made us successful, what made us the rulers of the planet and not the chimps and not the Neanderthals is not any individual ability, but our collective ability, our ability to cooperate flexibly in very large numbers. Chimpanzees know how to cooperate, say, 50 chimpanzees, 100 chimpanzees. As far as we can tell from archaeological evidence, this was also the case with Neanderthals.