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The building-up of a particular community is primarily a matter of cooperation in effecting favorable reactions, but after a longer or shorter period of occupation the reactions become disoperative, and the community is gradually displaced through the competition of one better adapted to the changing habitat.
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Along the continuum of behavior from total disoperation to total cooperation, we must make another quantum leap since our established modes and mad emphasis on competition has become disoperative.
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Nevertheless, in time the pastoral nomad system will expand at the expense of the resources of the hunter-fisher-gatherers who may be reduced to a parasitic, then a competitive and eventually to a disoperative interchange.
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The disoperative animal had been conditioned to drink only when alone. Therefore, when the cooperative animals attempted to accompany him to the water, the disoperative rat attacked his helpful companion as a function of a different set of values, a disconcertingly human descriptor used by Calhoun.
Source: wiktionary
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