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Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
youtube.comThis, in a nutshell, is the ascent of humanity that Jacob Bronowski was referring to in his classic The Ascent of Man, after which the present volume is ironically named.
Charles Eisenstein • The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self
Frans de Waal's book, The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates, explores the biological and evolutionary roots of human morality, arguing that our ethical behavior is innate and shared with other social primates, not a cultural overlay imposed by religion or reason.
Summary of The Bonobo and the Atheist
The central thesis
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