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Matt Ridley

  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    When Ideas have Sex
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    Middle Stone Age, half a million years old.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This book is about the rapid, continuous and incessant change that human society experiences in a way that no other animal does.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    In the past two decades I have written four books about how similar human beings are to other animals.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    This book is about how different they are from other animals.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    about human beings that enables them to keep changing their lives in this tumultuous way?
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    You could travel back in time and empathise easily with the motives of Shakespeare, Homer, Confucius and the Buddha.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    If I could meet the man who painted exquisite images of rhinos on the wall of the Chauvet Cave in southern France 32,000 years ago, I have no doubt that I would find him fully human in every psychological way.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    There is a great deal of human life that does not change.

    Yet to say that life is the same as it was 32,000 years ago would be absurd.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
    In that time my species has multiplied by 100,000 per cent, from perhaps three million to nearly seven billion people.
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