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On the Varieties of Spontaneous Orders: From Cultures to Civil Societies and the Orders in Between

In: Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society

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  • Troy Camplin

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Human beings are social animals. Specifically, we are a species of social ape, which evolved from the social primates, which are a kind of social mammal. And most mammals are social. Human beings, however, appear to be the most social mammal of all. Our sociality is so strong that we are able to live in considerable peace in cities containing millions of people, countries containing up to over a billion people, and a world of around seven billion. We know of each other’s existences and rarely engage in raids or battles. In this, we are completely different from our nearest relatives, the chimpanzees, who would immediately engage in genocide of any other group about whom they came to know. As Frans de Waal has observed, ten million chimpanzees in a city would create a bloodbath unlike anything ever seen committed by human beings (Querna, 2005).

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  • Troy Camplin, 2014. "On the Varieties of Spontaneous Orders: From Cultures to Civil Societies and the Orders in Between," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Guinevere Liberty Nell (ed.), Austrian Economic Perspectives on Individualism and Society, chapter 0, pages 81-104, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-36884-3_5
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137368843_5
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