Kassy Chesire’s Reviews > Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution > Status Update

“The more clannish you become, the more local and rigid your identity gets, the more you fall back on short term planning, the more corruption spreads, the more institutions breakdown— weakened by a lack of funding and a lack of public confidence— the more vulnerable you are to the big assholes. The demagogues. The autocrats.”

“And when you don’t feel that you can rely on big institutions, you fall back on your immediate family. Your friends. Your village. And, yes, the features of your local identity that keep those groups strongly bonded together. Including your local sex rules.”