1. Sarcasm Seen as Evolutionary Survival Skill

Comment #198131 by Dante2428 on June 23, 2008 at 9:09 am

Imagine two ancient humans running across the savanna with a hungry lion in pursuit. One guy says to the other, "There's no point in trying to go faster than a lion!" and the other guy replies "I'm not trying to outrun the lion, just you."

The first guy just looks blank and stops to figure out what in the world his pal meant by that remark. End of friendship, end of one guy's contribution to the future of the human gene pool.

Because evolution has a crush on pessimists.

2. The Group Delusion

Comment #110306 by Dante2428 on January 11, 2008 at 12:47 am

E O Wilson collaborated with his (unrelated) namesake D S Wilson