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SAPIENS: Yuval Noah Harari on Our Past, Present, and Future
The Next Big Idea
Are You Afraid of Spiders?
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Many people today are afraid of scorpions and spiders and snakes. But almost nobody is afraid of cars, even though they kill more than a million people every year. It's because we don't have enough time to build an instinctual fear of cars. The same thing happened to the large animals of the world when humans spread. They didn't have the benefit of evolving with humans every time and learning to fear them.
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