Human Evolution Quotes

"Future ages will produce further great advances in this realm of culture, probably inconceivable now, and will increase man's likeness to a god still more." "The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization." "Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock." "The most important thing to know about prehistoric humans is that they were insignificant animals with no more impact on their environment than gorillas, fireflies, or jellyfish" "Ever since the Cognitive Revolution, sapiens have thus been living in a dual reality. On the one hand, the objective reality of rivers, trees, and lions; and on the other hand, the imagined reality of gods, nations, and corporations." "It is man's ability to make tools that makes other animals his prey and that has enabled him to develop cooperating societies and to conquer his environment" "A deeper understanding of consciousness demands a historical and evolutionary context."