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survive as the forests shrank? What we do know is that these early hominins started walking on two legs before sprouting big brains and learning to shape tools from stone.
Steve Brusatte • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
Frank Wildman, taught evolutionary movement patterns structured around life forms, from simple to more complex and with the brain as a center for strength, not just gray matter for thinking.
Catherine Schaeffer • Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch
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Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
To a degree unique among life-forms, human beings are not confined to adapting to their environment. They are capable of adapting the environment to themselves.
Jonathan Sacks • To Heal a Fractured World: The Ethics of Responsibility
Joseph Henrich • The Weirdest People In The World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
Tim Urban • A Game of Giants — Wait but Why
norm for our ancestors, those of us who came after seem to have inherited what biochemist C. Nicholas Hales and epidemiologist David J.P. Barker christened “thrifty genes,” good at conserving fat. We are all descended from survivors, and survivors were the chubby ones. “At
Bee Wilson • First Bite: How We Learn to Eat
characteristics were shaped during this long pre-agricultural era.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
The human blitzkrieg across America testifies to the incomparable ingenuity and the unsurpassed adaptability of Homo sapiens. No other animal had ever moved into such a huge variety of radically different habitats so quickly, everywhere using virtually the same genes.6