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#422 - Dr Joe Henrich - Evolution, Psychology, Monogamy & Culture

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What Is It About Europe?

An alien visiting earth in around about a thousand a d would struggle to predict that the west would end up being so dominant. Why do you think that is? Well, because if you look at the world around a thousand c e,you knowtht the most sophisticated, urbanized societies are in china and the middle east. We so what happens? What how is it that europe ends at being so dominant? If we were these backwards, hairy barbarian people only a thousand years ago, what is right that we do that makes us so special? I make for wy from 15 hundred to the current times, european institutions and european populations spread around the world

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