“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.”
Quote by Richard W. Wrangham
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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution
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