If God created man, did we have a herd instinct in the beginning? Why did God create it?

Hello!
If God created man, did we have a herd instinct in the beginning? Because, if I’m not mistaken, people have always had a herd instinct.
If we assume that Adam and Eve are just collective images, and people committed the sin of pride (Augustine, I think),Can we say that the first "paradise"first people had a herd instinct? Why did God create it?

P.S.By the way, I am a complete zero in the topic of biology and evolution, I think, so forgive me if the question is not very precise:)

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Welcome to the herd, @TimohaEurope. That is an interesting question, as Adam was created in solitude, but soon found it not so good. Most here are more likely to say God created mankind though a population, and community was an important part of their ability to thrive and survive, so while herd may not be precisely the term, I think the answer is yes.
As to why God made us that way, perhaps it relates to the reason for our creation in the first place, to be in communion with God, and perhaps the nature of God as the Trinity. I gotta go spend some time in community over coffee with a buddy, but will look forward to other comments.

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With respect to evolution of man, living in groups may have been inherited from our common ancestor. Gorillas, chimps, and bonobos all live in groups much like humans do and are our closest ape relatives. Orangutans, by contrast, tend to be more solitary, but can interact socially.

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I guess ‘herd instinct’ is a bit misleading term. Humans are social creatures, rather than herd creatures. We are prewired or adapted, which term anyone would like to use, to having relationships. Relationships with individuals, family members, tribe.

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English is a funny language, full of nuance, context, and contradictions. We usually describe a herd as a group of mammal herbivores that gather together for protection against predators. If we are talking about birds we would call it flocking behavior, and if it is fish we would describe it as schooling behavior. If we are talking about predators, we would describe it as pack behavior.
It wouldn’t be surprising at all if part of human behavior is tied to protection against predators, but we also use social constructs to better feed ourselves. There are also highly social insect species, like some ants and bees.

There does seem to be a tug of war between social and selfish behavior. Whenever behavior tips towards more social cooperation it opens up strategies that will favor selfishness (i.e. cheating). The same can apply to situations where higher levels of selfishness can open up strategies that favor cooperation. There is also kin selection where you favor those you are closely related to over those that are more distantly related.

I do find it interesting that descriptions of sin in many religions are defined by selfish behavior. Many social constructs seem to be tackling the balance between cooperation and selfishness.

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Is this a biology question or a theology question? I shall address the biology first since there are number of misconceptions in your question.

Biology

We have more of a pack instinct than a herd instinct. A big part of the development of hominids which made them/us unique among other creatures was adaptation to the role of long distance running hunters, for which we acquired (evolved) thinner hair and a better sweat cooling system. And that is a role for which the pack instinct is valuable.

Even before this, our commonality with chimps, gave us warfare, and that isn’t a pack instinct but a tribal instinct.

And then a later adaptation which which made us even more unique was that of cooking, which reinforced the advantages of our tribal inclinations. One fire could serve more than just 2 and thus the work of building/keeping fire (and its tools) could be shared.

The final adaptation which separates us far more than these others is language which is inherently communal.

Theology

God created for relationship. And the ultimate relationship is that of parent and child with all our capabilities especially communication. Since communication is inherently communal, then it is only natural that we would have the prerequisites.

The creation of living organisms is fundamentally different than the creation of tools and inanimate objects. Living organisms grow, learn, and make their own choices. Should I ask you why you created a child with some particular preference they have?

I think it more likely God chose to make us His children (by speaking to us) BECAUSE we had the capability to communicate with Him, and this required us to be social organisms.

I am not sure what you mean by collective images (though I see no reason not to think these were real people). Anyway I clearly think we had then same instinct as now because it was a requirement for what God was seeking to accomplish.

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Yes, this is why I (when teaching about animal behaviour to undergraduates) I make a clear distinction between “cooperation” in social groups versus “true altruism”. Cooperation is evolutionarily stable because it is a win-win for both parties. (The fitness of both benefits by cooperating). In this way cooperation can still be viewed as “selfish” at the core, because it benefits one’s own fitness.

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It’s a somewhat difficult question to answer because it really should be two questions:

  1. Were Adam and Eve created with a “herd instinct”?
    Adam and Eve were as alleged created with a “perfect” genome. If you can consider the desire to be one with your fellow man, to be nature and not nurture, then I suppose you could say they may have had such a thing. We cannot know for a certainty, only assume, because we have no way of peeking to look at Adam and Eve’s genetics; only an assumption that we could extrapolate backward because of the “Human Genome Project”.

  2. Did society, when there was such a thing have a herd instinct?

       Again, we have to assume that it existed previously,
    

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