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Matt Ridley

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    But big brains and imitation and language are not themselves the explanation of prosperity and progress and poverty.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    humans are almost obsessively interested in faithful imitation.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    is nice, but it does not lead to ecological world conquest.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    ape-man to an ever-expanding progressive moderniser
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    But then the list of features unique to aardvarks or bare-faced go-away birds is also fairly long.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    the list of features suggested as unique to human beings is long indeed.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    psychologist Daniel Gilbert
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    It cannot just be that I have a bigger brain than other animals. After all, late Neanderthals had on average bigger brains than I do, yet did not experience this headlong cultural change
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    no parrot could begin to grasp. I am definitely different. What is it that makes me so different?
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    peculiar, non-random arrangements of atoms called technologies, which it invents, reinvents and discards almost continuously.
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