“there is every reason to suppose that people living in agrarian societies were subject to intense forces of natural selection. But what… — Nicholas Wade Natural selection Copy Share Image
“The English state thus constructed a system, later followed by other European countries, in which the ruler was subject to the law… — Nicholas Wade Economic growth Copy Share Image
“Although the emotional and intellectual differences between the world’s peoples as individuals are slight enough, even a small shift in social behavior… — Nicholas Wade Community Copy Share Image
“The king and queen were usually present, and the king or the dauphin would light a pyre. The cats were then tumbled… — Nicholas Wade King and queen Copy Share Image
“The Chinese state, from the days of the Qin, was an efficient, bureaucratized autocracy. Yet to this day, China has never developed… — Nicholas Wade Rule of law Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s theory of evolution, at least in its author’s eyes, dealt solely with the natural world. Yet it was as attractive to… — Nicholas Wade Biology Copy Share Image
“ancient Greek word mousikē, from which the English word music is derived, means any art over which the Muses presided, hence included… — Nicholas Wade Ancient greek Copy Share Image
“Another possibility is that the sweat glands were the driving force behind the rise of EDAR-V370A. East Asians are usually assumed to… — Nicholas Wade Body heat Copy Share Image
“When the glaciers retreated, starting around 20,000 years ago, both Europe and East Asia were repopulated by former northerners who had survived… — Nicholas Wade Years ago Copy Share Image
“Knowledge advances, funeral by funeral,” the economist Paul Samuelson once observed.” — Nicholas Wade Knowledge Copy Share Image
“Several primate species have communication systems of considerable sophistication. Gelada baboons have 22 different kinds of call, and gorillas have been recorded… — Nicholas Wade Communication Copy Share Image
“One of the strangest features of human anatomy, when people are compared with the other 200 monkey and ape species in the… — Nicholas Wade Family Copy Share Image
“it is easy to recognize an evolutionary process at work that has molded the human form for better survival in an arctic… — Nicholas Wade Judaism Copy Share Image
“Americans may already have begun adapting genetically to the American environment in the several generations since their ancestors arrived in the United… — Nicholas Wade Natural selection Copy Share Image
“others are still in the throes of the process. The Meso-Industrial Age, as it might be called, is the period during which… — Nicholas Wade Habits Copy Share Image
“By 1500 there were 1,700 printing presses distributed in 300 European cities in every country except Russia.16” — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Anthropologists call tribes segmentary societies because of the way in which the different lineages or segments can be fitted together for particular… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Several social behaviors that economists have identified as obstacles to progress are ones that could well have a genetic basis. One is… — Nicholas Wade Economics Copy Share Image
“Nonetheless, the homicide rate in the United States, Europe, China and Japan is less than 2 per 100,000 people, whereas in most… — Nicholas Wade Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the central belief of multiculturalists, Western culture has achieved far more than other cultures in many significant spheres and has… — Nicholas Wade Faith Copy Share Image
“They could switch to a form of Judaism Lite developed by a diaspora Jew, one that did not require literacy or study… — Nicholas Wade Education Copy Share Image
“This precocious advance may have had a lot to do with the nature of the plain between the Yangtze and Yellow rivers.… — Nicholas Wade Nature Copy Share Image
“Human sociality is often assumed to be entirely a matter of culture, originating from the age of life when children are taught… — Nicholas Wade Children Copy Share Image
“recent discoveries that human evolution has been recent, copious and regional severely undercut the social scientists’ official view of the world because… — Nicholas Wade Biology Copy Share Image
“Using a 500,000 snip chip, researchers at Stanford University have found a strong correspondence between the genetics and geographical origins of Europeans.… — Nicholas Wade Science Copy Share Image
