Our Tribal Future: How to Channel our Foundational Human Instincts Into a Force for Good ↑

The Tribe Drive

The “Tribe Drive” is an ancient adaptation that has been a prerequisite for survival for 99.9 percent of our species’ evolutionary history. It is a critical piece of cognitive machinery – honed by millions of years of evolution – that gave us the ability to navigate, both cooperatively and competitively, increasingly complex social landscapes.

David R. Samson, 2023, from the book Our Tribal Future: How to Channel our Foundational Human Instincts Into a Force for Good