As a result of our combined braininess and fecundity, humans have managed to colonize the planet; exploit, marginalize or exterminate all competing forms of life; build a vast military-industrial complex all under the auspices of Bernard Madoff and with one yeti of a carbon footprint, and will somebody please hand me that baby before it’s too late.
- Natalie Angier, In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue, New York Times science section
I'm working on a similar piece about the role of mothers in human evolution.
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