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A third wonder of life should not surprise. It is nature.
Dacher Keltner • Awe
we are more likely to behave altruistically, and less likely to behave selfishly, towards close relatives than distant relatives, and towards distant relatives than to unrelated folk.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
female mammals will always be more choosy than males.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
The new king of the castle goes through a biological transformation simply because he’s moved up on the hierarchical ladder. For a monkey’s physiology, position in the pecking order is everything.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
inhibition. It seems that sociocognitive evolution has occurred in the experimental foxes as a correlated by-product of selection on systems mediating fear and aggression.
Michael Gazzaniga • Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
relative standing in a hierarchy matters as much as or more than tangible rewards associated with a particular rank.
Keith Payne • The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Changes the Way We Think, Live and Die
Homo sapiens evolved to think of people as divided into us and them. ‘Us’ was the group immediately around you, whoever you were, and ‘them’ was everyone else. In fact, no social animal is ever guided by the interests of the entire species to which it belongs. No chimpanzee cares about the interests of the chimpanzee species, no snail
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
‘The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence’,