Culture leaves long-lasting residues-Shiites and Sunnis slaughter each other over a succession issue fourteen centuries old; across thirty-three countries population density in the year 1500 significantly predicts how authoritarian the government was in 2000; over the course of millennia, earlier adoption of the hoe over the plow predicts gender equality today.
( Robert M. Sapolsky )
[ Behave: The Biology of Humans ]
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