"All of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
---George Eliot, "Middlemarch"
Somebody else read the comments section in Sapolsky's New York Times op ed today.
His column had a rough explanation of human oddities explained as evolutionary adaptations.
(If you sort the comments by largest approval rating there are several interesting ones.)
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