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Matt Ridley

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

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    humans are almost obsessively interested in faithful imitation.
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    ape-man to an ever-expanding progressive moderniser
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    But then the list of features unique to aardvarks or bare-faced go-away birds is also fairly long.
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    the list of features suggested as unique to human beings is long indeed.
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    psychologist Daniel Gilbert
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    It cannot just be that I have a bigger brain than other animals. After all, late Neanderthals had on average bigger brains than I do, yet did not experience this headlong cultural change
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    no parrot could begin to grasp. I am definitely different. What is it that makes me so different?
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    peculiar, non-random arrangements of atoms called technologies, which it invents, reinvents and discards almost continuously.
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