The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE Quotes

“Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols, then recombine those symbols to recreate that world. What they subsequently react to is often the mental construct, rather than the primary experiences themselves.”
― Ian Tattersall, The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE

“The fact that Homo sapiens is the only hominid species on the Earth today makes it easy to assume that our lonely eminence is historically a natural state of affairs—which it clearly is not.”
― Ian Tattersall, The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE

“We tend to take what is familiar for what is natural”
― Ian Tattersall, The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE