Author: Mark Pagel

Quotes

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does.

- Mark Pagel

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others.

- Mark Pagel

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather than from the genes they pass to us.

- Mark Pagel

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