He initially set out to prove Charles Darwin’s assertion that competition is the law of the Jungle and ended up discovering the opposite, and that’s why he wrote Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. It was intended to be a refutation of Charles Darwin’s work.
I think Kropotkin also said more or less the opposite himself in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.
He initially set out to prove Charles Darwin’s assertion that competition is the law of the Jungle and ended up discovering the opposite, and that’s why he wrote Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution. It was intended to be a refutation of Charles Darwin’s work.
I was about to mention that too. The first part of mutual aid is talking through all the ways that animals work together and support each other.