
192. Lesley Newson & Peter Richerson — A New Look at Human Evolution
The Michael Shermer Show
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Human Coordination in Large Groups
In the science paper, we we have classic painting of indians driving riding horses and driving buffalo off e cliff. That's a good example of human cooperation. The other foldo that we use was an omish barn raising, with about forty guys clambering over a skeleton of a a barn that theyre building. So ya, humans are very good at co operating. Ina, in large groups. Again, hunter gatheres are strictly limited by logis because they can't feed themselves for very long. And in large groups, so they have to split up too. For special occasions, they bod gather the whole tribe together. This gives us hope that we will get over
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