David Brin
Team Human
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Thermeparadox: Why We Don't See Aliens
"There's very strong reason to believe that. humans are anomalously smart," he says. "The other thing is that humans have a couple of tricks that enabled us to have a chance to be calmer creatures." The male reproductive strategy has led across 99% of the last 15,000 years to beastly form of governance called feudalism and we're all descended from men who pulled it off in their harems.
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