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Eugene Linden
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For further information please visit eugenelinden.comI've spent my entire writing career exploring various aspects of one question: Why is it that after hundreds of thousands of years one relatively small subset of our species has reached a point where its fears, appetites, and spending habits control the destiny of every culture, every major ecosystem, and virtually every creature on earth? What happened that enabled us to seize control in a blink of an eye? I began scratching at this question in my first book, Apes, Men and Language, published over 40 years ago. In that book I explored the implications...
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