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Evolutionary Biology
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Consider the least stable way to arrange an animal's body: it would be to stand it upright. To seee the biomechanics of a human skeleton walk and run -to stand on one foot and not fall, as most humans can easily do- is to witness a marvel of motion and balance, as robot engineers are learning their cost.
Bipedalism was the enabler of subsequent brain growth.
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― Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
― Evolutionary Psychiatry: Current Perspectives on Evolution and Mental Health
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Karl Marx suggested that people should produce according to their abilities but share according to their needs, and this maxim describes hunter-gatherers reasonably well. But the history of communism suggests that agricultural people don’t share very well outside their family. The problem with the Marxist utopia is that people can free-ride on the efforts of others. If you are required to share with me, then I’m tempted to put in a little less effort because I know your hard work will leave me w
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― The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
― The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy
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