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Our species has made homes in all sorts of areas of the world. Whether it’s the freezing arctic or the arid outback, people are just about everywhere. How did we get so good at surviving? Our capacity to develop culture, which we can thank our evolution for.
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"The arc of our evolutionary history is long. But it bends towards goodness."
-Nicholas A. Christakis
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Blueprint helps you have hope for the goodness of the human race by revealing our biologically wired social tendencies that help us survive and thrive by working together.
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ur media outlets are constantly barraging us with explanations of how different we all are.
What are the odds, however, that what we think of as a large gap between us, is actually just a bunch of tiny differences? What if instead of being impossibly divergent we’re actually far more simil...
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This is what professor Nicholas A. Christakis , leader of an innovative social science laboratory, explores in his book Blueprint: The Evolutionar...
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It’s not uncommon for this to happen in other species’ evolutionary history, either. Some speculate that birds , for example, developed feathers to stay warm and only afterward learned to fly.
Monoga...
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At the end of 2015, a 15-year-old by the name of Zavien Dobson was murdered while sitting on his porch. But his heroic actions to jump in the way of gunfire from a nearby car saved the lives of his friends. When the author learned of this, he wondered why we love our friends so deeply.
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Again going back to evolution , it makes perfect sense that we would develop these types of relationships.
Our ancient ancestors had to work to survive amid threats like illnes...
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Blueprint is such a fascinating book! I usually think of human behavior in terms of psychology , but this brings the important sociolo...
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The 22-year-old who is taking a sociology class in college, the 45-year-old that loves to discover interesting new facts about psychology, and anyone that wants some hope for mankind amid all the
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It’s pretty obvious that everyone in the world considers kissing a regular occurrence between romantic partners, right? This is what the author thought, but what he discovered after looking into it surprised him.
In Mozambique, Africa, the Tsonga people don’t kiss. The...
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