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“[Evolutionary selection pressures for general communication] explain why humans are peculiar in having our rather small irises set against a white background—the sclera—in our eyes. Anyone watching us can infer where we are looking or whom we are looking at. Experiments with apes and infants show that apes watch the orientation of the heads of others while human infants watch the eyes.”

Sight Eyes Human Evolution Nonverbal Communication Sociality

Book:The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

Source: The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter

“What capacity could have renovated your brain, endowing you with new, specialised skills as well as inducing specific codnitive deficits? This exotic mental ability is reading.”

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Book:The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

Source: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

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