The existence of cooperating pairs of molecules in prelife is very plausible. Indeed, replication of a single strand of RNA can be thought of this way: one strand of RNA builds a complimentary strand, and so on. Thus cooperation is older than life itself.
Martin A. Nowak in his book Supercooperators.
Brad Fortier 
What do you think of this whole empathy nieron thing? If its building brain matter/empathy it could be relevant.
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Look for my blog post on humor and empathy. It’s also a chapter in my book, which you have on hand I believe.
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