Awe

These are narratives of people: Pearson, Patricia. Opening Heaven’s Door: What the Dying Are Trying to Say about Where They’re Going. New York: Atria, 2014.

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Japanese families honor the deceased: Koren, Leonard. Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets, and Philosophers. Point Reyes, CA: Imperfect Publishing, 2008.

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Chapter 11: Epiphany

“Whilst this planet”: Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London: Murray, 1859, 489.

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Charles Darwin’s emotions: Browne, Janet. Charles Darwin. Vol. 1, Voyaging. New York: Alfred Knopf; London: Jonathan Cape, 1995. Charles Darwin. Vol. 2, The Power of Place. New York: Alfred Knopf, 2002.

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Caring for his ten-year-old daughter: Goetz, Jennifer, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, and Dacher Keltner. “Compassion: An Evolutionary Analysis and Empirical Review.” Psychological Bulletin 136, no. 3 (2010): 351–74.

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vast story of mammalian evolution: Darwin, Charles. The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals. 3rd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Reading his descriptions: For a table of Darwin’s descriptions, see: Keltner, Dacher. Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009, 18–20.

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Frank’s office is: Gosling, Sam. Snoop: What Your Stuff Says about You. New York: Basic Books, 2001.

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MacArthur genius award: Sulloway, Frank J. Freud, Biologist of the Mind: Beyond the Psychoanalytic Legend. New York: Basic Books, 1979.

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He wrote the bestselling book: Sulloway, Frank J.

Born to Rebel: Birth Order, Family Dynamics, and Revolutionary Genius. New York: Pantheon, 1996.

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“I frequently went”: Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 489.

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“It is interesting to contemplate”: Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, 489–90.

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Literary studies speak of epiphanies: Kim, Sharon. Literary Epiphany in the Novel, 1850–1950. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

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the idea of systems

: Capra, Fritjof, and Pier Luigi Luisi. The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2014. For an early philosophical statement about systems thinking, see: von Bertalanffy, L. General Systems Theory. New York: Braziller, 1968.

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Various forms of life: Nowak, Martin A. “Five Rules for the Evolution of Cooperation.” Science 314 (2006): 1560–63.

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a systems view of life: Lent, Jeremy. The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2016. In this ambitious book, Jeremy Lent details how our capacity to perceive patterns emerged in many of our awe-inspiring social tendencies—moving in unison, mimicry, collective behavior. We became a pattern-perceiving species.

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Our survival depended: Lieberman, Matthew D. Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013.

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