Sapiens

The human collective knows far more today than did the ancient

the annals of biology. Perhaps if more people were aware of the First Wave and Second Wave extinctions, they’d be less nonchalant about the Third Wave they are part of.

These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa.

Most scientific studies are funded because somebody believes they can help attain some political, economic or religious goal.

Thus some Hindus, known as Sadhus or Sannyasis, devote their lives to uniting with Atman, thereby achieving enlightenment. They strive to see the world from the viewpoint of this fundamental principle, to realise that from its eternal perspective all mundane desires and fears are meaningless and ephemeral phenomena.

Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance.

Males must prove their masculinity constantly, throughout their lives, from cradle to grave, in an endless series of rites and performances. And a woman’s work is never done – she must continually convince herself and others that she is feminine enough.

The alpha male usually wins his position not because he is physically stronger, but because he leads a large and stable coalition.

reality became ever more powerful, so that today the very survival of rivers, trees and lions depends on the grace of imagined entities such as the United States and Google.