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"In Harran, the locals refused to convert. They were dismembered, their limbs hung along the town's main street. In Alexandria, zealots pulled the elderly philosopher-mathematician Hypatia from her chariot and flayed her to death with shards of...
"Do you like spinning around at the edge of disorientation for pleasure? You might like this book. I read the first 25 pages and it's endlessly dizzying and unmoored to any story line or even paragraph or sentence structures.
This book is poetic d..."
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"Too much speculation for my taste. The idea of graphing the impact of laughter among people who lived 100,000 years ago strikes me as absurd.
Placing a zero at the origin of a logarithmic scale suggests that the author's professed mathematical r..."
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"Fantastic book for the masses. An easy to read summary of some very complex research about the natural forces that drove us to become human (and illuminates just what that is) as opposed to apes and other social animals."
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