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  This photograph heavily gives off the "team-work makes the dream work" vibes. The people photographed are fishermen of the Koli Community in Virar, Maharashtra , en route to their voyage. Anthropologist Margaret Mead had said that the first sign of civilization is a healed femur. This powerful quote summarizes how humans despite being relatively new-born for a billions-year old Earth came into power. With the ability to operate through co-operation. Like Ms. Mead said, surgery, medicine and technology may be ground-breaking developments, but only because someone cared enough to stay back to help a comrade, especially in the age when running and hiding were the primal skills of survival. Team-work doesn't just make the dream work, sometimes it also keeps you alive. From lone wolves to hunter-gatherers to tribes and civilizations, cooperation has made life collectively easier. People have worked in teams to devise plans, wage wars, build empires and mutiny for their rig...

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