High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

High status males had multiple wives or additional mating opportunities in the ancestral environment.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.

Primates will continue to play social games without the least insight into what is killing them.

Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.

I much prefer the modern world.