The Birth of Human Rights

In Western Europe, when the novel begins to become popular as a form, you had these early bestsellers which started telling stories from interesting perspectives. And so what story is telling does is it kind of helps us see the world through the eyes of somebody else. There's good reason to believe that theories put forward by historians to talk about the birth of human rights are really onto something. Our brains haven't evolved much in the past 30,000 years. They've adapted very well to our surroundings, but it's still the same old ape brain under the skull.