Animal societies partaking in bartering? What are you referring to? And I think this is specically *not* bartering. That is not a direct exchange but rather through the use of money. In addtion that isn't the point of it. The point is the concept of "fairness" seems to be there.
I think that the point is, just as we are close to our cousins physically we are also close to them in some of the underpinnings of your mind as well. There is a continuum.
[This message has been edited by NosyNed, 10-08-2003]
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