Homo Hypocritus
The standard social brain theory seems in conflict with standard anthropologist accounts of ancestral forager lifestyles. Might “man the sly rule bender” resolve this conflict? Why do we have...
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I hadn’t till now appreciated how central long distance travel was to early human evolution. A 2004 Nature article: No primates other than humans are capable of endurance running. … Well-conditioned...
View ArticleWhence Better Brains?
The cover story of the July Scientific American is on brain physics. It persuades me that raw brain hardware was more important than I’d thought in our history. Here is my current best guess on brain...
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