“All of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
---George Eliot, “Middlemarch”
Somebody else read the comments section in Sapolsky’s New York Times op ed today.
His column had a rough explanation of human oddities explained as evolutionary adaptations.
link
(If you sort the comments by largest approval rating there are several interesting ones.)
“All of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.”
---George Eliot, “Middlemarch”
Somebody else read the comments section in Sapolsky’s New York Times op ed today.
His column had a rough explanation of human oddities explained as evolutionary adaptations.
link
(If you sort the comments by largest approval rating there are several interesting ones.)