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the trick where two weak things gang up and beat one strong thing
means the act of working together toward a shared goal, each contributing so the whole accomplishes more than any one could alone
from From Latin cooperari, 'to work together,' built from co- ('together') plus operari ('to work,' from opus, 'work or labor' — the same root behind 'opera' and 'operate'). The 'work' part is literally baked in: cooperation is just labor with company.
- vampire bats
- share blood meals, remembering who repaid them
- prisoner's dilemma
- tit-for-tat won by simply matching kindness
- cell origin
- one bacterium swallowed another and stayed friends forever
- naked mole rats
- run insect-style colonies with a single breeding queen
- slime molds
- single cells fuse to build a crawling tower
for instance
apollo soyuz test project — us and soviet spacecraft docked in orbit during cold war in 1975
international space station — 15 nations including usa, russia, esa, japan, and canada built and operate joint orbiting laboratory since 1998