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Yet, in fact, religion has been the third great unifier of humankind, alongside money and empires.
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The presiding judge ruled that a black person must surely be insane to think that he could be admitted to the University of Mississippi.
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History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.
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they expect the first mammoth in 5,000 years to be born.
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The Agricultural Revolution was history's biggest fraud.2 Who
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issued a ban on drug trafficking, but
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The secret was probably the appearance of fiction. Large numbers of strangers can cooperate successfully by believing in common myths. Any
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Superiors got all the good things in life. Commoners got what was left. Slaves got a beating if they complained.
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in many societies more people are in danger of dying from obesity than from starvation.
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The name 'denarius' became a generic name for coins.
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Each of us has within ourselves a brilliant ray of light that gives value and meaning to our lives. In
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One interesting conclusion is that money does indeed bring happiness. But only up to a point, and beyond that point it has little significance. For
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In most agricultural societies at least one out of every three children died before reaching twenty.5
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how long can we maintain the wall separating the department of biology from the departments of law and political science?
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Thanks to money, even people who don't know each other and don't trust each other can nevertheless cooperate effectively.
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European imperialists set out to distant shores in the hope of obtaining new knowledge along with new territories.
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scientists took a run-of-the-mill white rabbit embryo, implanted in its DNA a gene taken from a green fluorescent jellyfish,
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human handprint made about 30,000 years ago, on the wall of the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in southern France. Somebody tried to say, 'I was here!
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the better you know a particular historical period, the harder it becomes to explain why things happened one way and not another. Those
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{Photo: The Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory.}
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Most human cooperation networks have been geared towards oppression and exploitation.
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Consequently, from the very advent of agriculture, worries about the future became major players in the theatre of the human mind.
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Social cooperation is our key for survival and reproduction.
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Those more deeply informed about the period are much more cognisant of the roads not taken.
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The Human Brain Project,
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perhaps happiness is synchronising one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.
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the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians.
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We no longer say, 'It's in their blood.' We say, 'It's in their culture.' Thus
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History is often shaped by small groups of forward-looking innovators rather than by the backward-looking masses. Ten
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Even Russia nowadays pretends to be a democracy. Victory
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Earlier traditions usually formulated their theories in terms of stories. Modern science uses mathematics.
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Cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them.
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Russian, Japanese and Korean scientists has recently mapped the genome of ancient mammoths,
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The average ancient forager could turn a flint stone into a spear point within minutes.
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Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?
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Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather,
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we members of one of its final generations should devote some time to answering one last question:
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The insight of polytheism is conducive to far-reaching religious tolerance.
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They had physical dexterity that people today are unable to achieve even after years of practising yoga or t'ai chi. The
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If the curtain is indeed about to drop on Sapiens history,
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The data-processing system invented by the Sumerians is called 'writing'.
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money is the most universal and most efficient system of mutual trust ever devised.
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At heart, the Industrial Revolution has been a revolution in energy conversion. It
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We did not domesticate wheat. It domesticated us.
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This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.
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The idea of spilling blood for the sake of oil would have seemed ludicrous.
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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.
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If our minds are those of hunter-gatherers, our cuisine is that of ancient farmers.
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When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.
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When the pope in Rome heard the news from France, he was so overcome by joy that he organised festive prayers to celebrate
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Many call this process 'the destruction of nature.' But it's not really destruction, it's change. Nature cannot be destroyed.
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Banks and governments print money, but ultimately, it is the scientists who foot the bill.
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If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'. On
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Every point in history is a crossroads. A
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What's undeniable is that monotheists have a hard time dealing with the Problem of Evil.
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The social norms that sustained them were based neither on ingrained instincts nor on personal acquaintances, but rather on belief in shared myths.
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Romantic literature often presents the individual as somebody caught in a struggle against the state and the market. Nothing
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the alpha male wins his position by building a stable coalition with other males and females, not through mindless violence. In
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Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus.
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Just like equality, rights and limited liability companies, liberty is something that people invented and that exists only in their imagination. From
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DNA is not an autocrat. Animal behaviour is also influenced by environmental factors and individual quirks.
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The human species and the global economy may well keep growing, but many more individuals may live in hunger and want.
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The supreme commandment of the rich is 'Invest!' The supreme commandment of the rest of us is 'Buy!' The
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200 The Industrial Revolution. Family and community are replaced by state and market. Massive extinction of plants and animals.
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To attain real happiness, humans need to slow down the pursuit of pleasant sensations, not accelerate it.
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Today, the society called New Zealand is composed of 4.5 million Sapiens and 50 million sheep.
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When the gods created man, Gilgamesh had learned, they set death as man's inevitable destiny, and man must learn to live with it.
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Polytheism is inherently open-minded, and rarely persecutes 'heretics' and 'infidels'.
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which will enable either a human or an automatic operator to control the insect's movements remotely and to absorb and transmit information.
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We are consequently wreaking havoc on our fellow animals and on the surrounding ecosystem,
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The first principle of Buddhism is 'Suffering exists. How do I escape it?' Buddhism
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Peasants were worried about the future not just because they had more cause for worry, but also because they could do something about it.
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A German vegetarian might well prefer to marry a French vegetarian than a German carnivore.
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The most common reaction of the human mind to achievement is not satisfaction, but craving for more.
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about 40 million Chinese, a tenth of the country's population, were opium addicts.
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Intelligent design becomes the basic principle of life? Homo sapiens is replaced by superhumans?
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A lot of evidence indicates that we are destroying the foundations of human prosperity in an orgy of reckless consumption.
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To describe 'how' means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another.
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If the entire system works by electric signals passing from here to there, why the hell do we also need to feel fear?
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The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes
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Historians study the past not in order to repeat it, but in order to be liberated from it.
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Neanderthals made their exit roughly 30,000 years ago. The
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A new branch of mathematics was developed over the last 200 years to deal with the more complex aspects of reality: statistics.
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Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world.
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castigate Middle East experts for not anticipating the Arab Spring revolutions of 2011.
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Harlow's monkeys,
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To explain 'why' means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.
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marrow. Some researchers believe this was our original
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They argue for a reverse correlation between human capabilities and happiness. Power
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The Cognitive Revolution is accordingly the point when history declared its independence from biology.
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between 1885 and 1908 the pursuit of growth and profits cost the lives of 6 million individuals (at least 20 per cent of the Congo's population).
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This network of artificial instincts is called culture'.
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Sociological research has shown that the maximum 'natural' size of a group bonded by gossip is about 150 individuals.
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Yet the idea that all humans are equal is also a myth.
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100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza. The kind of thing rich people in ancient Egypt did with their money.
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Muslim caliphs Arabicised this name and issued 'dinars'.
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into our genes. Today we may be
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Biology enables, Culture forbids.
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