SOCECOL E8 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Jonah Lehrer, Jean Bruller, Stephen Greenblatt
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Study guide to the social conquest of earth. Edward o. wilson is a professor emeritus of harvard university and like jared diamond, a recipient of the pulitzer prize. There is no grail more elusive or precious in the life of the mind than the key to understanding the human condition. The human condition: where do we come from? , what are we? , where are we going? (p. 7) We have created a star wars civilization, with stone age emotions, medieval institutions, and god-life technology. We are terribly confused by the mere fact of our existence, and a danger to ourselves and to the rest of life. (p. 7) The first is why advanced social life exist at all, and has occurred so rarely in the history of life. The second is the identity of the driving forces that bought it into existence. (p.
