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#604 - Robin Dunbar - The Evolutionary Story Of Human Friendship

Modern Wisdom

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Men's Clubs Are a Neolithic Version of Gerry Springer

There's not a lot of kind of formal legislation in other words there's no judicial system they tend to appear later. What you get in this kind of black hole period space somewhere between living group sizes of 50 and living group size of about 400 is the series of things that are going on. In addition to things like men's club you get charismatic leaders so these are people who have authority and power by virtue of their at-knowledge skills. The chances that everybody every baby born born one year were male or by pure chance quite high, he says.

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