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#123 – Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness
Lex Fridman Podcast
Neanderthal Tribalism
If you look at a lot of human traits today, they're probably not that far removed from the human traits that got us where we are now. So it's kind of funny. This tribalism is nonsensical in many ways. It's like cognitive incongruent that basically we like kin. And selection for sort of liking kin is hugely advantageous genetically. Probably across all kinds of working across all types of life. Yeah. If you now transport that to the sort of humans arriving in Europe and Neanderthals are everywhere, what are you going to do? You're going to kill them off. There's this battle for territory, and these battle for they're not like us. We
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