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“Homo sapiens is a creature that over vast areas of the earth, in the countries and continents and centuries that the history books and the newsreels neglect because nothing ‘interesting’ has happened in them, has succeeded in living the moderate and mainly cooperative life to be expected of cousins of the hedonic apes. Almost all men spend most of their lives in this way. Most men spend all their lives in this way. But because all our governance is based on male bonding, and male bonding on at best a low-powered rumbling of aggression, accompanied by the hallucinatory visions which keep that aggression alive, we are constantly in danger of seeing our communities revert at intervals into the horrible agonic semblance of a troop of baboons. Baboons, moreover, with their finger on the button that can fire off an H-bomb.”

Quote by Elaine Morgan

Work

The Descent of Woman: The Classic Study of Evolution

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Elaine Morgan
Elaine Morgan

Elaine Morgan was a British writer known for her unique insights into human origins and evolution. Her works challenged traditional evolutionary theories, proposing hypotheses about human ancestors that sparked widespread debate in the academic community. more

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