“We're hard-wired by 200,000 years of evolution to be sensitive to the idea that someone might be watching us. They might be predators, after all. An uneasy feeling is perfectly natural if you suspect that someone has you in their ocular sights, whether it's a ghost or just some guy at the bus stop.” IfsYearsIdeasHardFeelingsMightGuyNaturalEvolutionSightGhostSensitiveSuspectsBusPredatorUneasyPerfectly NaturalBus StopsUneasy Feelings Author:Seth Shostak
“Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.” HumansCultureCoursesForceSocialNaturalEffectsEvolutionInstitutionsClimateSelectionPredatorHuman EvolutionSocial InstitutionsFood Supply Book:The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology Source: The expanding circle: ethics and sociobiology
“Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.” MaySeemsNaturalAnimalNumbersFailingPopulationAbsenceBritainPredatorHeartlessDeerDenseWild AnimalWoodland Author:Tristram Stuart