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I had many reasons to hope for the defeat of John Howard’s conservative government, but that doesn’t explain why I went to some trouble to vote, since the likelihood that my vote would make any difference was miniscule (and, predictably, it did not).

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Focusing on leadership, diplomacy and institutional design also helps explain failures to achieve peace, or to make it last.

So to explain that, let me first talk a bit about what math looks like in the real world and what it looks like in education.

How can we explain this universality?

We need to reverse-engineer our present artistic tastes and preferences and explain how they came to be engraved in our minds by the actions of both our prehistoric, largely pleistocene environments, where we became fully human, but also by the social situations in which we evolved.

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