"Though some social systems can be understood as
result of kin selection, humans engage in reciprocity, which may transcend kinship
as an explanation for much of human behavior. The constraints of rigid kin selection
have been broken by our use of written and spoken language to fashion long-remembered
agreements upon which civilizations can be built."
In other words, language may work as an antidote
to simple kinship behaviors (tradition) which the truly civilized see as unjust,
anti-social, nepotistic, and usually destructive long-term.
