From: The New York Times
A Road Trip to the Origins of Our Species
February 24, 2016
The New York Times:
It was on an all-night Capitol Air flight to Brussels, sitting in the back smoking rows with Leon Festinger, playing endless backgammon and consuming Scotch at an alarming rate, that I realized that, whether I liked it or not, I was about to learn a lot about human origins and uniqueness.
The year was 1981. Leon, the ingenious and intellectually adventurous social psychologist responsible for the theory of cognitive dissonance, had once again switched fields, this time from visual perception into what amounted to archaeology, and I was his sidekick.
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