Born to Trade

Long before our ancestors had any trappings of citation, they had a taste or material goods.Kate Douglas discovers where this ancient obsession has led us. A Humans are born to trade and we don’t need shops or money to do it – the heart of commerce is an instinctive ability for what anthropologists call reciprocity. This is an ability to exchange goods of equal worth and it evolved as the brains of our ancient ancestors grew and societies became more complex, allowing individuals to ke...