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show that human evolution has depended on the persistence of 

 the fittest group, instead of the fittest individual ; that coherent 

 solidarity, mutual aid, and group altruism have been the factors that 

 have developed the divine in man and evolved Homo sapiens. The 

 current ideas of the success of the ruthless dynast and fittest fighter 

 are certainly wrong. Frightfulness may have played its part in the 

 evolution of the predatory brute and venomous serpent. It had but 

 little to do with the origin of humanity. 



