Because large-scale cooperation runs on shared stories, a population can reorganise how it cooperates within one lifetime by changing its story, with no change in its genes.

Evidence 2 passages

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  Since large-scale human cooperation is based on myths, the way people cooperate can be altered by changing the myths, by telling different stories.

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  She had managed to be a part of five very different socio-political systems, though her DNA remained exactly the same.

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