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Decoding the Gurus

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The Evolution of Speculative Theorizm

Bret weinstein thinks that he has solved this problem. But there are different ways of interpreting this philosophically, and there's a whole back and forth debate. It doesn't mean you can just assume that everything is an adaptation. The omega principle is about how you apply evolutionary reasoning to culture. And they talk about epigenetic regulators such as culture. We want our definition of 'adaptation' to be very different from the way other people see it.

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