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Cacilda Jetha • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
Francis Fukuyama • The Origins of Political Order
Contrary to earlier assumptions, hunters and gatherers—even today in the marginal refugia they inhabit—are nothing like the famished, one-day-away-from-starvation desperados of folklore. Hunters and gathers have, in fact, never looked so good—in terms of their diet, their health, and their leisure. Agriculturalists, on the contrary, have never look
... See moreJames C. Scott • Against the Grain
Evan told the history of Japan to me not as a recitation of dates or myths, but as an illustration of scientific principles embedded in humanity. He showed me that the history of Japan is not a story about emperors and generals, poets and monks. Rather, the history of Japan is a model demonstrating the way all human societies grow and adapt to the
... See moreKen Liu • The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
Over two thousand years later, in 1966, the University of Chicago held a symposium on primitive hunter-gatherer societies.…
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Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day
The weakest and most opportunistic people in a wild tribe were those who prospered under the white man—a fact no less true because Lewis Moon, in their conversation that night in Madre de Dios, had made this point.