Culture is a great jimmy-er of nature.

In J.B.S. #Haldane’s essay, On Being the Right Size, he contemplates the cost of being a large mammal, like homo erectus, instead of a small mammal, like Mus musculus:

> Mr. Haldane.. an attractive picture of the future as it f may become through the use of scientific discoveries to promote human happiness... I should like to agree.. [but] a long experience of statesmen and governments has made me... sceptical. I... fear that science will be used to promote the power of dominant groups, rather than to make men happy. #Icarus, having been taught to fly by his father #Daedalus, was destroyed
https://russell-j.com/20-Icarus-FofS.HTM
#BertrandRussel on #TechProgress #Haldane