Survival of the Friendliest Hare Brian
A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that what helped us survive--when other hominins didn't--was our unique ability to bond together in order to accomplish our goals.For most of the…
Specifikacia Survival of the Friendliest Hare Brian
A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that what helped us survive--when other hominins didn't--was our unique ability to bond together in order to accomplish our goals.For most of the approximately 300,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. But one-by-one, our hominin relatives went extinct. How did we outlast them?We have the singular ability to find common cause with both neighbors and strangers. Advancing what they call the "self-domestication theory," Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, explore the persistence of tribalism in modern life. Since Charles Darwin wrote