“The central metaphor of these four chapters is that human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee. Human nature was produced by natural selection working at two levels simultaneously. Individuals compete with individuals within every group, and we are the descendants of primates who excelled at that competition.”
No we are not. You want to know about a primate, check out the sperm count and testicle size.
Our closes relative is the highly promiscuous bonobo, Sperm count correlates with female willingness to sleep around, Bonobos score highest, followed by the Chimp, then humans, then the Orangutang and finally the Gorilla. Humans are closer to orangutangs in social structure. We do not compete in social groups but co-operate. We like to be teams; look at team sports, our co-operate structures are seen on the turf, we like to be in groups of 10-15. In small groups we aid the young, the old and the sick.
The ‘village idiot’ is a classical example of how wrong you are. People with mental handicaps or mental disorders were not killed as a waste of food, instead they were accepted as people and had a place in society. There are neolithic skeletons of people who have suffered massive injuries, yet been nurse back to health. The Neanderthal Shanidar Cave has poor Shanidar 1, he had a healed crushing fracture to his left orbit which would blinded the eye, a withered right arm which had been fractured/healed in places and with forearm and hand amputated. He also had deformities in his lower legs and foot and would have a painful limp and be unable to walk.
This 45 year old man cannot have done very much in the way of work, but he lived.
How many disabled chimps you seen in the wild Josh?
You have a really low opinion of your species, very common on the left. .