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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship
Modern Wisdom
The Social Brain Hypothesis for Monkeys and Apes
The social brain hypothesis is an explanation for why monkeys and apes have much bigger brains than anybody else in the natural world. Robin Dunbar says we use these big brains to manage our relatively large very complicated societies. It's that that allows us really to hold these things together as a coherent village rather than sort of scattered individuals who never talk to each other. That's keto B R A N Z dot com slash modern wisdom and M W 20 a checkout.
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