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Modern Wisdom · 2026-11-05 · 71 min · 10,658 words

How War Shaped Human Evolution - David Geary - #1172

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Why is the human mind so unique? Or interesting. Yeah. Yeah, great great question. Um we are highly unusual species in many, many ways.

Um in terms of overall brain size, in terms of the ability to Uh learn novel things like reading, writing, inventing mathematics, um

Self awareness is probably much more highly developed in us than in any other species. So there's a whole variety of Um cognitive ability, social

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