Interesting: "Every component of the human brain, like each gene responsible for its construction, is there for one reason: it enabled our ancestors to survive long enough in the ancestral environment to pass their genes on to the nest generation." (pg 28)
Insightful: "Our capacities to create words and symbols and our ability to communicate by means of them developed the rapid evolution of the human brain as a result of an increased selection pressures coming from a largely hostile environment--ice ages, the presence of determined and skilful predators, scarce food resources, droughts, floods, etc." (pg. 27)
Confusing: "Just as the rising sun banishes darkness from the world, so the mythic hero emerges from the stomach of the whale, the ego struggles free from the grip of the unconscious, the boy liberates himself from his emotional dependency on his mother" (pg37)
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