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“...our essential process for making a decision still relies on emotion.”

Mind Decision Emotion Evolution Animals Homo Sapiens

Book:Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Source: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

“Gathering can be just as critical as hunting because men sometimes return with nothing, in which case the family must rely entirely on gathered foods.”

Women History Fire Food Evolution Hunter Paleontology Gatherers

Book:Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Source: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

“The moral contradictions of our ancestry should not prevent us from reaching a realistic assessment of who we are. When we do that, high hopes are still possible.”

Life Violence Evolution Human Sapiens

Book:The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

“People often expect religious believers to act in especially prosocial ways, which they often do, but religiosity is not always a predictor or moral kindness.”

Religion Violence Evolution Civilization Mythology Evolutionary Psychology

Book:The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

“The sexual division of labor refers to women and men making different and complementary contributions to the household economy. Though the specific activities of each sex vary by culture, the gendered division of labor is a human universal. It is therefore assumed to have appeared well before modern humans started spreading across the globe sixty thousand to seventy thousand years ago.”

Men Sex Differences History Evolution Female Gender Role

Book:Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Source: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

“Cooking was a great discovery not merely because it gave us better food, or even because it made us physically human. It did something even more important: it helped make our brains uniquely large, providing a dull human body with a brilliant human mind.”

Fire Food Evolution Cooking Evolutionary Psychology

Book:Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Source: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

“History is far more important than evolutionary theorizing as a reminder about human potential, because the historical evidence of change is so much more vivid.”

History Psychology Mankind Evolution Evolutionary Psychology

Book:The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

Source: The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

“We should accept the likelihood that male violence and male dominance over women have long been a part of our history. But with an evolutionary perspective we can firmly reject the pessimists who say it has to stay that way. Male demonism is not inevitable.”

Politics Women Nature Violence Feminism Evolution Males Masculinity Evolutionary Psychology

Book:Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Source: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

“O cozimento deu início a um compromisso dietético que atualmente move uma indústria. Os alimentos populares cozidos em fábricas gigantescas são muitas vezes desprezados, por serem supostamente desprovidos de micronutrientes, tendo excesso de gordura, sal e açúcar e muito poucos sabores interessantes, mas essas são as iguarias que evoluímos para desejar. O resultado é o excesso. Na virada do século XXI, 61% dos americanos estavam "com excesso de peso suficiente para começar a experimentar problemas de saúde como resultado direto".”

Evolucao Obesidade

Book:Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

Source: Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human

“...those who have political power can count on someone coming to their aid - the police or the military or the mob or the family, or the royal guard.”

Politics Violence Evolution Males Masculinity Evolutionary Psychology Stalinism Castrismo Comunism

Book:Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

Source: Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence

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