The King's 28 Letters Have

Two Types Of Choices Seem To Me To Have Been Crucial In Tipping The Outcomes [of The Various Societies' Histories] Towards Success Or Failure: Long-term Planning And Willingness To Reconsider Core Values. On Reflection We Can Also Recognize The Crucial Role Of These Same Two Choices For The Outcomes Of Our Individual Lives.

Human Societies Vary In Lots Of Independent Factors Affecting Their Openness To Innovation.

Introspection And Preserved Writings Give Us Far More Insight Into The Ways Of Past Humans Than We Have Into The Ways Of Past Dinosaurs. For That Reason, I'm Optimistic That We Can Eventually Arrive At Convincing Explanations For These Broadest Patterns Of Human History.

Why Is It That You White People Developed So Much Cargo And Brought It To New Guinea, But We Black People Had Little Cargo Of Our Own?

But This Was The Only Way Of Life That Humans Knew For Their First 6m Years On The Planet. In Giving It Up Over The Past Few Thousand Years, We Have Lost Our Vulnerability To Disease And Cold And Wild Animals, But We Have Also Lost Good Ways To Bring Up Children, Look After Old People, Stave Off Diabetes And Heart Disease And Understand The Real Dangers Of Everyday Life.