It’s Better To Walk Through Walls Than To Build Them

Why all of us need to cultivate empathy rather than invent more reasons to cut ourselves off from others

Allan Milne Lees

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We humans evolved in the context of small closely-knit inter-related hunter-gatherer groups numbering rarely more than one hundred and fifty individuals. For 98% of our evolutionary history we had to…

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Allan Milne Lees

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