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Episode 33: Monkeys, Smurfs, and Human Conformity (With Laurie Santos)
Very Bad Wizards
The Adaptive Story of Cultural Causality
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The adaptive story is then gets a little weird because if At some point this emerged it makes sense to make the argument that this allows us to have complex Cultural causality and are Dealing with artifacts and Skype. But when you have that then you also get things like I don't know Transmission of social processes that look really dumb right cases of ritual and superstition that feel like they have causal components but aren't. The crazy thing is here is a spot where two two things is weird from the comparative perspective one is We're seeing these neat differences with animals, right? Usually we're often seeing lots of similarities and here's a spot where it's totally different secondlike at least in this task
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