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Matt Ridley Interview

The Mating Grounds Podcast

CHAPTER

The Red Queen

The idea that humans uniquely among animals don't make use of instinct when developing their behaviors and have to start from scratch is almost laughable now. And yet it was inherited from the Nature Nurture Wars, which had essentially managed to exempt human beings from any evolutionary approach to behavior or an even indeed genetic approach to behavior. I think you're quite right that now looking back, we wonder what the fuss was all about.

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