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b'Crowded subway driving you crazy?\\xa0Sick of the marathon-length grocery store line? Wish you had a hovercraft to float over traffic?\\xa0If you are itching to hightail it to an isolated cabin in the woods, remember, we evolved to be together.\\xa0Humans are not only social, we\\u2019re driven to care for one another, even those outside our immediate family.\\xa0\\xa0\\nWe look at some of the reasons why this is so \\u2013 from the increase in valuable communication within social groups to the power of the hormone oxytocin.\\xa0Plus, how our willingness to tolerate anonymity, a condition which allows societies to grow, has a parallel in ant supercolonies.\\nGuests:\\n\\n\\nAdam Rutherford\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Geneticist and author of \\u201cHumanimal: How\\xa0Homo sapiensBecame Nature\\u2019s Most Paradoxical Creature \\u2013 a New Evolutionary History\\u201d\\n\\n\\nPatricia Churchland\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Neurophilosopher, professor of philosophy emerita at the University of California San Diego, and author most recently of \\u201cConscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition\\u201d\\n\\n\\nMark Moffett\\xa0\\u2013\\xa0Tropical biologist, Smithsonian Institution researcher, and author of \\u201cThe Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive and Fall\\u201d\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'