The Ancient Brain SECRET REVEALED | Why Humans Rule the Planet Earth

For 99% percent of our history we humans lived as insignificant animals. We were living at the mercy of nature and in constant fear of being hunted down by predators. But in the last 1 lac years with the rise of homo sapiens, we jumped from the bottom to the top of the food chain.
What secret ability made us humans the dominant species on earth? Was our species just born with special god-gifted abilities or did some random evolutionary event shape our fate?
Ted-ed video on sleep and napping-
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*The tree-to-ground reengineering of sleep was a key trigger that rocketed homo sapiens to the top of evolution’s lofty pyramid. At least two features define human beings relative to other primates - 1 our degree of sociocultural complexity and 2. Our cognitive intelligence. Both have been beneficially shaped by the hand of sleep.
*The superior emotional brain gifts that REM sleep affords should be considered more influential in defining humanity's success than the benefit of inspiring creativity. Creativity is a powerful evolutionary tool, yes. But it is largely limited to an individual. Creativity is far more likely to remain fixed with an individual, rather than spread to the masses if creative, ingenious solutions are not shared between individuals through the emotionally rich, pro-social bonds and cooperative relationships that Rem sleep promotes.
- Why we sleep by Matthew Walker - amzn.to/41UOBVr
*Sapiens page no. 23 - The appearance of new ways of thinking and communicating between 70000 and 30000 years ago constitutes the cognitive revolution. The accidental genetic mutations changed the inner wiring of the brains of sapiens, enabling them to think in unprecedented ways and to communicate using an altogether new type of language.
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari - amzn.to/3HeZCJn
My Favorite Books
1. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Harari)
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2. 12 Rules for Life By Jordan Peterson
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India - amzn.to/3OXzi7T
3. Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
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India - amzn.to/3JggEXt
4. The 48 Laws of Power By Robert Greene
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India - amzn.to/3PLF6Cn
5. Mastery by Robert Greene
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India - amzn.to/3vK913J
6. Atomic Habits by James Clear
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7. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: Mark Manson
Global Audience - amzn.to/3cErj1M
India - amzn.to/3zf7qpK
My Favorite Biographies -
1. You Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
Global Audience - amzn.to/3JcI7JF
India - amzn.to/3JbUl5f
2. Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Global Audience - amzn.to/3bcHxyO
India - amzn.to/3vo9Pxm
3. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
Global Audience - amzn.to/3Q6XJke
India - amzn.to/3zFKWQ1
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