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How Group Work Saved Our Species.
I am reading a book called The Social Leap by William von Hippel and the book is just outstanding, Bill Hippel is a mind-bending thinker (a psychologist by trade) and the best I can describe the book in a short synopsis would be: evolutionary insight: why we are the way we are.
The other day I was on YouTube and Joe Rogan podcast episode featuring Bill Hippel in promotion for The Social Leap came up. I would recommend everyone watch it. At the beginning of the podcast, Hippel explains the two main questions he was thinking about as he started writing the book:
The first question is why would our ancestors leave the rainforest?
The second question is how would they survive once they left?
“The single most important military invention in history is the capacity to kill at a distance.” — Bill Hippel
Question 1
Apparently, our Chimpanzee ancestors were the kings of the jungle. Six or seven million years ago our cousins ran the show in the trees. The rainforest chimps (as I call them) are really athletic, super fast in…
