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    It is not the case that If the pre-social human condition was one of independence and contentment, then society is a contingent invention, not a biological necessity.

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    • 1.Even pre-social humans lived in family groups and coalitions—minimally social structures essential for survival and reproduction.
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    • 2.Human infants require years of intensive care; solitary independence is impossible, making some social arrangement biologically necessary.
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    • 3.Contentment is subjective and unverifiable in prehistoric contexts; attributing it requires unfounded assumptions about ancestral psychology.
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    • 1.Archaeological evidence shows humans thrived in small, dispersed groups for millennia before complex societies emerged.
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    • 2.If humans required society biologically, infants raised without social contact would develop normally, but they demonstrably do not.
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    • 3.Many human capacities (language, reason, self-awareness) function independently of societal structures, suggesting society amplifies rather than enables them.
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