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I think it's fallacious to separate our behavior as animals from our ability to reason. Our behavior as animals, like all animals, is the direct result of out abilities to reason. And though it certainly can make for interesting musings, i don't think it's reasonable to talk about humans as they exist outside of society, because humans haven't really ever existed outside of society. The species is the community, and whether you choose to go with the flow or not, or even drop out all together, you're still part of it so far as it provides context for your existence.
There is no primordial man, at least as far as solitary prototypes with inherent morality go; humans have always lived with each other. The only significant changes to the human experience have been external. Even if there was some singular original solitary human, no one can reasonably claim that he bears any kind of significant representation of humanity in general.
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