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#573 - Dr Victor Kumar - How Did Human Morality Evolve?
Modern Wisdom
Gene Culture Co-Evolved
There's been a huge literature over the past couple of decades trying to explain how it's not just that genes evolved and culture evolved, but they co-evolve together. So one of my favorite examples of this has to do with the gene that creates alcohol aversion. Those populations in Asia were among the first people to take domesticated rice crops and turn them into alcohol. And so there was this evolved cultural practice of domesticating rice, turning it into alcohol,. That created a selection pressure on our genes.
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