Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

In the northern hemisphere, the majority of living beings die of an illness that’s called winter.

an area that’s cultivated, or turned into pasture for livestock, will feed more human beings than a natural ecosystem. They

we fell a forest and turn it into fields we can cultivate. Where previously there were thousands of plants and animals, now there’s only one plant and one animal.

Jungian synchronicity,” I said. “You’re talking about something, and it appears to you.”

a human being living in isolation isn’t a human being, it’s something else.

functions of its own accord, that there’s no need for any intervention. That’s the basis of liberalism. The invisible hand of economics regulates everything, and leads to progress amongst nations.

Darwin’s greatest single influence was Adam Smith. Smith believes in the ‘invisible hand’ of the market. He says it

This is how Darwin, reading Malthus, came up with the key. Unconscious selection: they compete amongst themselves. He realised that, although everything in nature appears to be alive, in reality almost everything’s dead, because of natural selection.”

There’s a concept in ecology called ‘carrying capacity’.