It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language. — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised. It's a piece of neural audio technology… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
I think the driving force for cultural evolution is this desire for groups to be splitting off and separating and forming subgroups insofar as… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
Having culture means we are the only animal that acquires the rules of its daily living from the accumulated knowledge of our ancestors, rather… — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language. — Mark Pagel Copy Share Image
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