Derek J Duvel

“Free time is extremely rare in the animal kingdom; most animals have no choice but to fill every moment of their daily calendar with eating”
― Max Solomon Bennett, A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains – A Neuroscience Framework for Understanding Future Machines

“The most obvious social behavior of nonhuman primates is grooming—a pair of monkeys will take turns picking dirt and mites from each other’s backs where they can’t reach themselves. In the first half of the twentieth century”
― Max Solomon Bennett, A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains – A Neuroscience Framework for Understanding Future Machines

“In the end Diocletian’s plan for the peaceful transfer of imperial power depended on successors who had a stronger sense of duty to the state than an urge to start a dynasty. As such”
― William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire

“Like Rome”
― William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire