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David Sloan Wilson: "Chickens, Cooperation and a Pro-social World"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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Scale Independence - How Can We Affect Rapid Cultural Evolution That Doesn't Lead to Pathologies?

How can we affect rapid cultural evolution that doesn't result in pathologies? Well, thanks to scale independence, we could first answer that at a small scale. And there's a whole piece of this having to do with whether or not you're adaptable or flexible. So just imagine now those groups that you were imagining, which are not working as well as they could and then imagine some process whereby we might implement them better.

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