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#594 - Dr Richard Wrangham - The Incredible Evolution Of Human Violence

Modern Wisdom

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Are We Racing?

The ultimate source of violence is the Y chromosome. We're clearly less given to what we might call irrational forms of aggression than men are. I would think that it would ultimately behoove us in a world of new kinds of reproductive technology for a moral agreement on putting the Y chromosome into a test tube like Smallpox. Is that ethical to talk about essentially an entire gender's eugenics removal from the future of civilization? There's a question for you.

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