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What Evolution Reveals About Human Behavior (S1 EP15)

The Life Of The Mind by Steven Pinker

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LZ Granderson: Language is clearly a Darwinian adaptation. He says it's one of three adaptations that makes humans so unusual in the animal kingdom. The other two are technological know-how and sociality, he says. LZ: I'm actually skeptical that some things that many people just assume are adaptations really were selected by Darwin’s process of selection.

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