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humans. Within the core of DNA are genes, which “carry” the characteristics one has inherited from one’s
Doug McGuff • Body by Science: A Research Based Program to Get the Results You Want in 12 Minutes a Week
Humans are smarter because our cortex, relative to body size, covers a larger area, not because our layers are thicker or contain some special class of
Sandra Blakeslee • On Intelligence
They had discovered that the Scandinavian hunter-gatherers they sampled shared a majority of genetic variants with northern Europeans today, whereas the farmer possessed more variants found in the eastern Mediterranean, in Greece and Cyprus. It seemed there really had been a migration – and that farmers and hunter-gatherers had stayed largely
... See moreAlice Roberts • Ancestors
The polygyny in our evolutionary past shouldn’t surprise us—none of the other extant great ape species are monogamous.
Heather Heying • A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life
Natural selection has made us a cultural species by altering our development in ways that (1) slowed the growth of our bodies through a shortened infancy and extended childhood but added a growth spurt in adolescence, and (2) altered neurological development in complex ways that make our brain advanced at birth yet both highly expandable and
... See moreJoseph Henrich • The Secret of Our Success
Hence, we are more likely to accept a dangerous idea if it aligns with our own experiences and is supported by the people we value.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
his human flock, and it was thus right and natural for his subjects to obey him
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Humans
Francesca McDonald • 5 cards
In the 1930s, Max Kleiber, a Swiss agricultural biologist, observed that, across mammal species, from shrews to elephants, the energy required to maintain basic metabolic function is closely correlated with an organism’s body size.