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#174: Return to Nuremberg (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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The Evolution of Reciprocity

The American experiment just by its nature was an experiment in stabilizing reciprocity as the principal reason for people to move forward. I don't think the founders really even understood that that's what was so radical about what they were doing. They were doing many radical things, but obviously Darwin hadn't written yet. We did not have the tools for the founders to really understand that they were playing around with an evolutionary fundamental. If you put aside degrees of relatedness and you collaborate based on reciprocity, then you can create much faster than a society that is either limited to one population or has an uneasy peace between populations.

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