Cooperation in adversity: a political theorist's response

This is a reply to: Lazarus, John. 2017. "Co-operation in adversity: an evolutionary approach." Global Discourse 7 (4): 571–598. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1402426. I found John Lazarus’s ‘Cooperation in Adversity’ (2017) a very interesting read, and one that throws up many interesting questions. My response is very much in the spirit of a cross-disciplinary conversation, as the reactions of a political theorist to a natural scientist. I am therefore entirely open to the possibility that the issues I raise reflect a limited understanding.