"Warfare is ultimately not a denial of the human capacity for social cooperation, but merely the most destructive expression of it," the anthropologist Lawrence H. Keeley writes in his book "War Before Civilization" (Oxford, 1996).
"Like LSE, this institute seeks to use knowledge to improve society and deepen the capacity for international cooperation.
His Excellency has been continually boosting the Kingdom's capacity for international economic cooperation by 1) an ambitious program of bilateral cooperation which entails the signing of at least ten BITs a year, and 2) by launching a series of overseas offices, nine in total to date, all but one of which are staffed by women (putting SAGIA closer to its 50x10 goal, 50% female staff by 2010).
The New Yorker, January 22 , 1949P. 62 Most of the people who take a dim view of the Congress's capacity for loyalty & cooperation...maintain that the 81st Congress is a body of more intelligent, more honorable & more responsible men.
The capacity for love, friendship, and cooperation with social groups characterizes humans as a biological species.
Then, the capacity for terminal MS under cooperation in bits/s/Hz will be {C}_{mathrm{coop}}=delta { log}_2left(1+beta {mathrm{SINR}}_{mathrm{coop}}right).
Add to this basic mechanistic selection for cooperation the human capacity to recognize and reward behaviors that strengthen the group -- the tribe, the state, the church, the platoon -- and selflessness thrives and multiplies.
Despite the differences, they claim that the important similarities between species include the capacities for empathy, altruism, cooperation and perhaps a sense of fairness.
But, of course, these are just what we would expect to evolve in populations of animals whose average fitness levels are closely linked to their capacities for successful social cooperation.
