We humans are programmed for kindness, here's how to stockpile it

How to stockpile kindness: Our initial reaction to the first global pandemic in over a century has been individualism but it’s reassuring to remember that actually, we humans are programmed for kindness.

Our initial reaction to the first global pandemic in over a century has been individualism but it’s reassuring to remember that actually, we humans are programmed for kindness, writes Suzanne Harrington.

When an interviewer asked the famous 20th century anthropologist Margaret Mead what she considered to be the first sign of human civilization, they expected her to say coins, pottery, jewellery, maybe weapons. Instead she replied it was a 15,000 year old human thigh bone with a healed fracture. This, she said, indicated civilisation.