In looking back on our origins, we might easily fall prey to two misconceptions. First, that H. sapiens evolved toward perfection (as opposed to simply changing in response to changes in its environment); and second, that whatever might have been lost from one millennium to the next as modern man evolved is something that we are well rid of. The idea of “improvement” in a species over time has no footing in evolutionary theory. And it could be that something H. sapiens “lost” on his way to modernity, perhaps a willingness to cooperate closely with others on a daily basis, is something he can
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