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Book Summary: “The Story of the Human Body” by Daniel E. Lieberman
Book Summary: “Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth” by Peter Turchin
Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “Human Societies: An Introduction to Macrosociology” by Nolan & Lenski
Article Summary: “The Puzzle of Monogamous Marriage” by Henrich, Boyd and Richerson
Book Summary: “The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge” by Matt Ridley
Book Summary: “Is There Anything Good About Men?” by Roy F. Baumeister

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Book Summary: “Is There Anything Good About Men?” by Roy F. Baumeister
Book Summary: “Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson
Book Summary: “Emergence: the Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities and Software” by Steven Johnson
Second Top Ten Books to Read
Book Summary: “Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World” by Deirdre McCloskey

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