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Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods, Rene Ruiz (Narrator), "Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity "
A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness.
âBrilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring - and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time.â (Cass R. Sunstein, author of How Change Happens and co-author of Nudge)
For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened?
Since Charles Darwin wrote about âevolutionary fitnessâ, the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the âself-domestication theoryâ, Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive.
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