In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest. (Location 462)
What then drove forward the evolution of the massive human brain during those 2 million years? Frankly, we don’t know. (Location 470)
No one was lying when, in 2011, the UN demanded that the Libyan government respect the human rights of its citizens, even though the UN, Libya and human rights are all figments of our fertile imaginations. (Location 814)
