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this romantic insistence on seeing a dark shadow behind each invention is as dogmatic as the belief in the inevitability of progress.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Whereas chimpanzees spend five hours a day chewing raw food, a single hour suffices for people eating cooked food. The advent of cooking enabled humans to eat more kinds of food, to devote less time to eating, and to make do with smaller teeth and shorter intestines. Some scholars believe there is a direct link between the advent of cooking, the shortening of the human intestinal tract, and the growth of the human brain.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
There is no way out of the imagined order. When we break down our prison walls and run towards freedom, we are in fact running into the more spacious exercise yard of a bigger prison.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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