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...homo sapiens are easily flattered. We like dolphins because they seem to like us. They smile--or rather, their mouths curve upward in an illusion of cheeriness--and we feel the urge to touch, to pet, to be nearer. It hardly registers that dolphins smile even when they have nothing to be happy about...
...EVIL with a capital E” types are just us, the way we really are, once you strip away all the law-abiding, paycheck-loving, 9-to-5 trimmings that make our American civilization tick. People have been killing people since Cain and Abel—or since homo sapiens and Neanderthals, if you like the Darwinian creation myth better. And they aren’t about to stop just because it makes modern liberals distinctly uncomfortable...
...partial victory prove worth the burning battle? The pursuit of parity makes sense only if it is a step up, not down. The quest for the Holy Groin, as it might have been called, is now superseded by the more fundamental question, "Do Women Need Men?" Or are homo saps of the male chromosomal make-up just devices like the dew claw on the dog, something evolution is shucking...
...flat-face could displace A. afarensis as a direct link in the human lineage. Or it may be part of a branch leading to Homo rudolfensis, a species with a strikingly similar face that lived in East Africa between 2.4 million and 1.8 million years ago. "You find something beautiful and new, but the conclusion is you actually know less," says Spoor. "But we're getting there...
...much of Ecce Homo, the Nietzsche book Phil Jackson gave you, did you read...