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Why is the West Special? | Joe Henrich & Richard Hanania

CSPI Podcast

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Gene Culture Interactions

I feel like humans are pretty well mixed genetically. But the one place where that might not be the case is when you get these gene culture interactions. So for example, if you have genes that say you're a cattle herding population and you have your drinking milk, you could get genes that go along with that lifestylelike lactose. And then that group could spread by all competing other groups because it's got this nice package of cattle herding, you know, milk drinking, which allows you to get nutrients from the animals. It's kind of a gene culture package. And that thing can actually lock up in a way that interacts the genes in the culture in a cool way. There

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