Last night I was thinking about how powerful cooperation is as a strategy from an evolutionary perspective. And I was thinking about how you don't have to be very good at it to benefit from it.
Ants are famous for their cooperation, but they aren't exactly well organized or efficient. They just share a common goal and all move towards it, often they get in each other's way. Too many ants helping with one task and not enough doing another. But they have still taken over the world.
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