I’ve just added Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality (Science Masters)
I struggle to suppress the urge to backpack somewhere for a few days. I have a few details to arrange before I can gift myself.
But the next time I immerse myself in the natural world, my whole view of how and why things happen will have undergone a radical shift.
I could sit in the woods for years and not have the necessary information to conclude that a major difference between humans and even our closest genetic relatives is the length of dependency of human babies.
A two-year-old chimpanzee can contribute to the community. Most humans cannot support themselves or their community before they’re 18-years-old - and that’s in an ideal world.
As for my concerns about global warming, vanishing species and civil rights, Diamond writes:
“For the first time in history, we face the risk of a global decline. But we also are the first to enjoy the opportunity of learning quickly from developments in societies anywhere else in the world today, and from what has unfolded in societies any time in the past. That’s why I wrote this book.”
I trust Diamond. So I’ll keep on reading and living as mindfully as I can.