Collaboration is likely a big part of successful evolution. People or animals who were not collaborative or cooperative had less chance of being in the safety of community and, therefore, they were more exposed to risk and possible harm.
Charles Darwin wrote:
“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too), those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
Please think about times in your life where collaboration has been useful – and has moved forward the effort in which you were involved. Can you observe times when collaboration allowed your group, team or family to thrive when, if there were not collaboration, events could have taken a turn for the worse?
Is there truth to the notion that the “non-collaborative” would have been excluded from successful groups? What are the implications for you in our present day? How can you discern that collaboration advances the evolution of any group to which you belong?