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Lmao no they're not. Humans are a communal species, it's literally what we've evolved to be.
However acting as if behavioral (or even worse evolutionary) psychology can in any way give a definite answer on what is human nature and what is learnt behaviour, is ridiculous.
There are no factual answers to the question "what is human nature?"
If you look at human history, every civilization has eventually pretty much done the same thing just at different scales.
At some point humans do in general attain that trait, in larger societies.
Keep the group small, it'll eventually grow larger. It literally all happened throughout human history, there are physical artifacts across the globe, all before globalization and communication technologies, and they all generally did the same thing. Or they were one of your "communal" societies that no longer exist because..
Lmao post your academic sources instead of vague gesturing towards human History
I'm being vague because these are common facts. I'm not about to go spend half my Saturday sourcing this for you, to win some kind of online argument lol its nice and sunny outside and I'm planting trees all day and imbibing with you kids on here on my breaks.
Yeah because my time is valuable lol should I need to find a source that proves the sky is blue? Seriously none of this is new or contested, aside from you and your group on here. Y'all need to get educated on history, it's actually really interesting and fun to read up on in your spare time.
You're being vague because you are wrong.
https://www.college.columbia.edu/core/content/mutual-aid-factor-evolution-peter-kropotkin-1902-ce