The happy tendency to share resources equitably — at least with members of one's own social group — is a central and unique feature of human social life. It emerges, it seems, in middle childhood.
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Tomasello, M., Warneken, F. Share and share alike. Nature 454, 1057–1058 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/4541057a
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