As a matter of fact, as a parent, yes. My daughter’s school is small, and they have a zero tolerance policy on bullying. The kids must first work together to figure their shit out, and then, if not, the teachers or principle and parents intervene to help them. They do this from the time they are 3 years old. My daughter’s HS class has no problems with bullying.
So, yes it’s a learned behavior. Kids begin learning about the world around them almost as soon as they are born. Their little brains are sponges, and they quickly learn to mimic behaviors around them.
And you won’t do that by dismissing our social behaviors and how they shape our society.
Communication and cooperation also come naturally. All those things you list are social constructs that have changed over time. They are not baked into our DNA, they are learned behaviors, which might at times be driven by our baser instincts.
Funny, all I’ve read in those fields attend to the constructed nature of society and our behaviors. They don’t assume something is biological, primarily because they can see change over time and they are not themselves biologists.
