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How we became human, and why we need to change, Tim Dean

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How we became human, and why we need to change, Tim Dean

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references

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no index present

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non fiction

Main title

How we became human

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Tim Dean

Sub title

and why we need to change

Summary

Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our culture also evolved, giving us powerful tools like religion and politics that could expand community sizes and maintain moral order. While these mechanisms served our ancestors well, though, our evolved sense of right and wrong is out of step with the modern world. Social media can turn outrage into an addiction, gender equality is still hampered by caveman thinking, and implicit bias turns to explicit oppression. How do we separate what's natural from what's right? How can we reshape our thinking to thrive in the modern world?

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