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bears that played the most tended to survive the longest.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
so species that live in large groups would need bigger brains to manage these and have to devote more time to grooming so as to bond the group together.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
The University of Wisconsin’s Harry Harlow had, by 1950, begun documenting the way rhesus monkeys would play with physical puzzles made from a combination of locks and latches, and he coined the term “intrinsic motivation” to describe it.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
People who are attentive to the existence of animals have refined souls.
Jean McNeil • The Dhow House
Just 6 million years ago, a single female ape had two daughters. One became the ancestor of all chimpanzees, the other is our own grandmother.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
It's a Jungle in There: How Competition and Cooperation in the Brain Shape the Mind
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animal intelligence
Bernardino Machado • 4 cards
conducting a literature search of 89 different stories told by seven different forager cultures in Thailand, Malaysia, Africa and elsewhere. All of the tales carried lessons about social cooperation, empathy and justice, and many taught sexual equality