Brief thought exercise: have you ever stopped and realized that the reason you’re not a chimp is 1/50th of your DNA?
I read Guns, Germs and Steel on the first intercontinental flight I ever took (which sadly didn’t happen until I was 28), and while that’s maybe not the best flying-over-the-Atlantic reading material, it was pretty captivating (it has sold millions of copies). I came… Continue Reading