Human Quotes

“There is a growing consensus that a major factor in developing larger brains was the banding together in social groups, which made hunting and gathering more efficient and also provided protection from other predators.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique

“Crawford concludes that Homo sapiens could not have evolved on the savannas but instead were holed up at the beach, gathering along the shoreline.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique

“have long-chain polyunsaturated lipid ratios”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique

“When shown a series of photographs of five natural landscapes—tropical rain forest, temperate deciduous forest, coniferous forest, savanna, and desert—the youngest subjects (those in the third and fifth grades) picked the savanna as a preferred landscape. Older subjects equally preferred those landscapes with which they were familiar, as well as the savanna.52 People were happier viewing scenes with trees rather than inanimate objects, and also preferred the shapes of trees with spreading canopies, similar to those found on the African savanna, rather than rounded or columnar ones.”
― Michael S. Gazzaniga, Human: The Science Behind What Makes Your Brain Unique