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Using Evolutionary Science To Change Behaviour - Professor David Sloan Wilson

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Can Cultural Evolution Be Catalized in This Way?

In chemistrya catalytic substance is a substance that you could add to a chemical reaction in a very small amount. It miraculously speeds up the reaction, often by orders of magnitude. What we need to do as we need to take agents, individuals or organizations, and we need to hold them in some orientation that causes them to interact with each other. And then the catlic agent, whoever did that, is released to repeat the the er a process. When you hold a workshop and you get people to interact that would never interact otherwise, essentially you've acted as a catalytic agent. So let's do that. Iis possible to accomplish things in years rather than decades, or not

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