Biologically Speaking

Susan writes:

I think of community in biological terms.  Ants have communities, bees have communities, and so on.  I see human communities in terms of primate troupes.  They are organized around alpha males in essential interaction with certain females.  Of course human towns and cities are complex manifestations of that, and some of their qualities are uniquely human.  Nevertheless, I don’t think you can understand human communities without understanding the social traits that people share with other primates.