192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution
The Michael Shermer Show
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Social Media
I mean, social media was supposed to bring us together. That was the whole point of don't be evil and all that. Well, those markers of identity are all too easy to deploy on social media, aren'tthey? You know the work of peter peche? I haven't looked at that a long time. He makes mathematical models of e of en social dynamics. And he argues that the united states has gone through about one and a half of two cycles. So we we during the civil war, and the after mafterf the civil war. Ell, that was a period of discontent in the united states. Ship and an the modern period, as it is, a
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