Survival of the Friendliest Quotes

“Interestingly, the fastest way to dehumanize someone is to paint their eyeballs black. In horror movies, white eyeballs are always the first to go.”
― Brian Hare, Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

“This progression is a manifestation of synaptic pruning. When our brains are growing, we make more neurons than we need. As we navigate our lives, solving problems and adapting to different environments, we use certain networks of neurons more than others. These commonly used networks become more numerous and better able to compute information; then they streamline their connections and become more efficient. By the time we are adults, our brain networks are stripped down and specialized. We lose plasticity, but our cognition becomes better at solving the problems we are most likely to face.”
― Brian Hare, Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity