Grassroots activism is alive and well in America like it hasn't been since the 1960's. From rooting out corruption in government - to ending the 1%'s domination of our economy - to turning off our war machine - movements are capturing the hearts and minds of Americans from coast-to-coast - compelling them to get out there and get active. But really, this is just the first step. It's what comes NEXT that we need to start thinking about. After we take back our democracy - what sort of new economy do we want to build? What are we going to replace corporate capitalism with? For an answer to that - we have to look inside ourselves - literally inside ourselves - into our DNA. New research in the journal "Science" pin points one of the main differences between humans and chimpanzees that has let our species dominate the planet. And that is our ability to SHARE. Researchers took groups of 4-year-old children and compared their ability to solve puzzles together with groups of chimpanzees working on the same puzzle. Where most of the groups of children completed the puzzle after a few hours - none of the chimpanzee groups could do the same. The reason why was not intelligence - but SHARING intelligence. The children learned from each other - and communicated what worked and didn't work - and copied each other. As the study said, "Teaching, communication, observational learning, and prosociality all played important roles in human cultural learning but were absent (or played an ...
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