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Episode 62: Joe Henrich - The WEIRDest People in the World

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The Secret of Our Success Is That Cultural Evolution Is Smarter Than We Are

i'm partial to voluntary association communities. People could join communities that would fulfil a lot of their social needs. These wouldn't be people who were sort of rejecting the larger society. If you really wanted to change things in patrilenial clans, you'd basically have to start monkeying around with the basic frame framework of life right? Ye is not something that can just change over night, right? This is the y eelan culture! You've talking about a multi century enterprise, right? And then you'd have to remake them all into polyginous bandy cousinings and so on. I mean, t the cousin marriage rate is over 50%. That's what

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