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The Indiana Jones Of Anthropology On The Origins Of Western Psychology — Joe Henrich

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Evolution of Supernatural Agents

The big powerful and moralizing gods that are so common in religions today aren't the way most humans have lived over most of human history. In lots of small-scale societies, the gods are smaller. And it's only over time as societies scale up that gods seem to become increasingly moral,. The further you get from yourself socially, the more incentive there might be or the harder it is to constrain people's behavior.

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