November 2020
Humanity?s Underbellies
What makes world history so fascinating is the mystery of human behavior. We are communal creatures (few of us can really survive as hermits), yet most of us are endowed with a certain amount of freedom of choice. Our behavior is not governed as much by instinct, built-in wiring, as most other creatures lower on the evolutionary scale.
For our earliest humanoid ancestors to survive, their communities were more important than the individuals within them. Leaders led by hav more...