Survival of the Friendliest - Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity
epub | 13.84 MB | English | Author :Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods | 0399590668 | 2020 | Random House Publishing Group

Book Description :

A powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our unique friendliness
"Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring-and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time."-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 "evolutionary fitness," 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...

Category : | Physical Anthropology, Physical Anthropology, Evolutionary Psychology