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Human Guidance Systems Engineered
in the Age of Reptiles


 
Last updated: 3 July 2024
 
Why we often choose to believe in economic theories that take no account of human eccentricities and truly awful economic data

Human Guidance Systems Engineered - in the Age of Reptiles





“So here we stand, and walk, having arrived helter-skelter after 3.8 billion years of lineage endowed with no certain purpose beyond carrying still forward the vagaries of mutation and natural selection, erect, bipedal, bone-strutted bags of salty water led by guidance systems engineered back in the Age of Reptiles.”

Quoted from Edward O. Wilson’s book “Genesis , on the deep origin of societies”.

Edward Wilson was widely recognised as one of the world’s pre-eminent biologists and naturalists.  See more data...



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