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David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Is It Tight or Loose?

Tightness and looseness can be adaptive at the group level depending on the circumstances. In loose societies, for example, there's really strong norms for inclusion. We need to perfect methods of rapid conscious cultural evolution in order to keep up with it. If we don't, then evolution still takes place.

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