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In order to expand as much as they did, early Indo-Europeans must have had some kind of edge, and in order to expand again and again over millennia, they had to have an edge that was hard to copy.

— Henry Harpending

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Australian Aborigines never domesticated plants at all.

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It’s time for researchers in the human sciences to shrug off the chains of dogmas like evolutionary stasis and “psychic unity.” There’s no time to lose—and there’s a world to win.

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