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Robert Triver's The Folly Of Fool

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“Just as you are on average better than others, so is your group–just as others are worse, so are out-groups. Such groups, in and out, are pathetically easy to form. You need not stoke Sunni or Catholic fundamentalism to get people to feel the right way; just make some wear blue shirts and others red and within a half-hour you will induce in-group and out-group feelings based on shirt color.” Robert Trivers, The Folly of Fools (The Evolutionary logic of

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