Talk:Sociality

Are humans presocial?
Do humans really belong to the list of presocial species between birds and insects? Were humans presocial at any time? Shouldn't that period of time be specified? Proski 19:35, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Aren't we Presocial Now? 71.233.230.223 (talk) 22:00, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes we are, probably between communal and quasisocial would be the best fit.58.178.149.198 (talk) 22:00, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
 * So basically I gather we humans are not as social as some other animal species?--78.60.103.193 (talk) 08:40, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Yes, but be careful not to generalize based on norms in Western societies. Ringbang (talk) 18:57, 12 December 2013 (UTC)

The suggestion that eusociality could apply to humans baffles me. Do we really have a caste system based on ability to reproduce? Non-reproductive adult humans can't even be easily told apart from anyone else; they're not a separate biological category.

Kindnesstheorist (talk) 22:16, 9 March 2019 (UTC)


 * Yeah, that's far too high on the scale; we're nothing like ants and bees. Many contemporary human cultures, including hunter-gatherer cultures, which seem to reflect Paleolithic cultures most closely, living in kin groups (bands) of about 30–50 individuals, are quasisocial, as my lay understanding goes. Modern Western cultures are better described as communal. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 01:11, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

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Classification into presocial and subsocial
How come jaguars are considered presocial in one paragraph, and in the next, it says sub social animals care for their young. Jaguars care for their young so I do not understand this. 23.226.171.190 (talk) 00:03, 12 May 2024 (UTC)