Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does. Mark Pagel Read Quote
Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We’ve got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can’t be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren’t very different from other animals. Mark Pagel Read Quote