Psychologists have found that people have the inner tendency to do what everyone else is doing. What does this inherent conforming behaviors come from?
Evolutionary, conforming should give the conformers a comparative edge in the hunter-gatherer society. Because evolution is a long process, and most of our behaviors have not evolved to adapt to modern society, some behaviors that are beneficial in the hunter-gatherer environment are not necessarily beneficial today.
So what makes herding beneficial in the forager society?
Some people claim that our herd behavior may come from our evolutionary precursors, so our herd behavior is not due to adaptation of our hunter-gather environment, but inherited genetically from other animals that adapted to their environment. If this is true, we may find the answer by observing and explaining the herd behavior of other animals.
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