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Article: Meet your mind: instincts, intellect and their impact on human behavior.(MODERN THOUGHT)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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On the true lessons of history
Once a documentary claimed that in the past five thousand years the world had lived in true peace only for forty-one days. I was skeptical on one hand and intrigued on the other, so to verify this claim I randomly selected three ancient countries--Russia, Iran and China--and researched how frequently they had fought. Together, they had been at war for some 1,550 years out of the previous 1,750 years. This unintelligent behavior pattern indeed defies humans' claim as the paragon of intelligence.
Yet a brief glance at man's achievements--such as building the pyramids, inventing the fax machine, landing on the moon and ...
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