Sublime

Albert Einstein was far less dexterous with his hands than was an ancient hunter-gatherer. However, our capacity to cooperate with large numbers of strangers has improved dramatically.

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

Epigenetic regulators, such as culture, are superior to genes in that they are more flexible and can adapt more rapidly.

Par exemple, certains psychologues de l’évolution soutiennent que les anciennes bandes de fourrageurs ne se composaient pas de familles nucléaires centrées sur des couples monogames. Les fourrageurs vivaient plutôt en « communes » qui ignoraient la propriété privée, les relations monogames et même la paternité. Dans une bande de ce genre, une femme