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Mark Pagel

Scientist

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Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast. Mark Pagel

Speak Diversity Range Vast Practices Cultural Cultural Diversity Human Languages Beliefs

Natural selection has duped us with an emotion that encourages group thinking. It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity. Mark Pagel

Good Natural Pride Group Thinking Pleasure Thrills Emotion Selection Makes Encourages Duped Us Natural Selection Act Even Activity Coordinated Brings

You and I probably wouldn't be here if our ancestors hadn't been greedy savages. Mark Pagel

You Greedy Our Ancestors Been Here Savages

Nothing in our evolutionary history specifically prepared us to live in large societies. Almost everything about the way culture works does. Mark Pagel

History Culture Nothing Live Our Everything Way Evolutionary About Almost Almost Everything Does Us Large Works Prepared Specifically Societies

We owe our big brains less to inventiveness than to conflicts of interest among social minds engaged in an arms race to be the best at manipulating others. Mark Pagel

Best Big Others Our Minds Arms Arms Race Brains Than Owe Conflicts Interest Race Social Manipulating Engaged Less Among

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 we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals. Mark Pagel

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What drives the separation of groups of people into subgroups is the desire to control resources. We begin with a single culture, and over time the number of individuals within that culture expands. Mark Pagel

Time Culture People Single Control Separation Resources Drives Individuals Over Within Begin Groups Desire Number

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