192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Evolution of Morality and Violence
In our gens, there is this tendency not to fight. If i have a reputation that i will fight if necessary, you're less likely to attack me. Soat there's a logic to deterrence. There something along those lines. How do you think about war and conflict that way? Well, i was impressed by some models that serge gabelits a university of tennessee, made. He compared what he called games of o us against them versus games of us against nature. And it turns out thata co operation can evolve for both reasonsbut it's somewhat easier to evolve.
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