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#558 Justin Barrett - Thriving with Stone Age Minds; Evo Psych, Christian Faith, and Flourishing

The Dissenter

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The Idea of Niche Constructors in Human Development

i would like to ask you about the phenomenon of niche construction. In some ways, it's building on that notion that a life lived well is one that somehow fits in a particular environment or context. By just going through life and doing what we do, we change the environment which then our offspring have to grow up in. It seems that lots of animals do this is as a regular part of evolution,. but humans do this in much more radical and dramatic ways than other species does. Other organisms deal with fitness challenges by genetic mutation. For humans, no method is almost perfect for changing the environment so we're actually genetically stable.

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