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- William von HippelInterview
Hierarchy in the Forest by Christopher Boehm, War before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley, The Better Angels of our Nature by Steven Pinker Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham, A Primate’s Memoir by Robert Sapolsky, Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt, Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant, The Hadza by…
- Ian FrancisInterview
Fiction, although recently I really liked The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker – however strange our world is now, I do fundamentally believe that overall things are getting better, and personally if I could choose to live in any point of human history so far I’d choose now. His book is a far more…
- Michael ShermerInterview
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker. For my money, this is the most important social science book ever written, comparable to Principia by Isaac Newton in the physical sciences and The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin in the biological sciences. It is packed with data in a highly readable narrative…
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