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Using Evolutionary Science To Change Behaviour - Professor David Sloan Wilson

The Weekend University

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Adaptation Thinking - The Most Powerful Idea, Also the Simplest

adaptation thinking is the centrepiece of darwin's a thinking. So you are thinking like an evolutionist in order to make your statements. And when we expand evolutionary thinking beyond the biological sciences, then we get to use this amazingly powerful way of thinking for our cultures and ourselves as evolving entities. Ok. Now i'm going to introduce multi lovel selection theory through the game of monopoly. The goal is to buy up all the real estate and drive the other players a bankrupt. Just imagine playing that game. And now imagine playing a monopoly tournament in which the trophy goes to te tem that collectively develops the real estate the fastest. This is what bof skinner calls selection by consequences

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