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153. Rational Optimism | Matt Ridley
The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
Having Sex Is What Makes Evolution Cumulative
Sex is the process that enables a genetic novelties to find each other and combine. It's what makes evolution cumulative, in effect. You can't bring them together unless they're trading. And the trading is what enables you to make culture acumulative. I was actually going to read something, if you don't mind, from your book, from page twelve, which i liked quiteabi. A lot of our radical innovations have been a consequence of engineers being trained as psychologists or physicists moving into biology.
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