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A second and equally important possibility is that language is used for storytelling.
Robin Dunbar • Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships
They maintain that the people who drove the Neanderthals to extinction, settled Australia, and carved the Stadel lion-man were as intelligent, creative and sensitive as we are. If we were to come across the artists of the Stadel Cave, we could learn their language and they ours. We’d be able to explain to them everything we know – from the adventur
... See moreYuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
This ability to speak about fictions is the most unique feature of Sapiens language.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
—Kuira-bá —dijo Salvador, con las únicas palabras que conocía del idioma tarahumara: “Somos todos uno”.
Christopher McDougall • Nacidos para Correr: Una tribu oculta, superatletas y la carrera mas grande que el mundo nunca ha visto (Spanish Edition)
They want to learn from people, and once they become a disciple of a person or teacher, they will remain disciples for years, if not for life. Once they are a fan of an educator, they really, really love to buy from them.
Olly Richards • Case Study: Anatomy of a $10M Online Education Business
our standard historical meta-narrative about the ambivalent progress of human civilization, where freedoms are lost as societies grow bigger and more complex – was invented largely for the purpose of neutralizing the threat of indigenous critique.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
He worried that language had come to the Earth and invented people in order to perpetuate itself.
Chuck Palahniuk • Make Something Up
A origem do pensamento pacifista nas Relações Internacionais remonta às ideias de Thomas More (1478-1535). More foi enviado por Henrique VIII a Flandres como embaixador para defender os interesses dos comerciantes de Londres e abrandar a briga entre o monarca inglês e o príncipe de Castela, que havia herdado os Países Baixos. O trabalho seminal de
... See moreANTONIO CARLOS MORAES LESSA,HENRIQUE ALTEMANI DE OLIVEIRA,THIAGO GEHRE GALVAO,VIRGILIO CAIXETA ARRAES • INTRODUÇÃO AO ESTUDO DAS RELAÇÕES INTERNACIONAIS - Volume 1 - Coleção Temas Essenciais em RI (Portuguese Edition)
That word ‘tribe’: it’s shifted a lot in the past decade, shedding its dubious, imperialistic connotations and striding confidently into the anthropological world, in which groups are determined less by genes and more by the work they do, the clothes they wear, or the passions they pursue.