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#268 – Robert Proctor: Nazi Science and Ideology
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Science of Taphonomy
Just because something is beautiful doesn't mean it was I mean it's that's not a good signal to determine if it's intelligent design or natural evolution or natural design. People want to fantasize they'll find a stone it looks like a carving is 300,000 years old generally I think those are just odd stonesYeah you don't find the explosion of carved stone until around 60,000 years ago 50,000, 60,000 year ago there seems to be something that paleoanthropologists called the creative explosion or the big bang of the mind That produces a kind of ability to to see in the distance to identify a shape in an object which Neanderthals didn't seem to have ever
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