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66: Peter Turchin - Why Empires Rise & Fall

The Nietzsche Podcast

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Are Human Beings Group Hunters?

Turchin: Asabia is generated as an empire begins to decline. He says Richard Dawkins wrote his selfish gene with the aim of attacking group level selection. Turchin thinks that this was a mistake, and it's because natural selection occurs on both individual and group levels.

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