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249. Primatologist Explains the 1% Difference Between Humans & Apes | Richard Wrangham

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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How Much Weapons Mattered?

Rowan Williams: It's easier to be a bully when you're huge and everyone else is small. But once weapons emerge, the advantage of physical strength is decreased substantially - at least in principle. Only humans have converted an alpha male bully into an alliance of males among whom there is a sort of formal level of equality. And if anybody in that alliance tries to throw their weight around, they know what will happen. They will get taken out as as the bully originally did. Right. Now, that's what happens nowadays and what Christians would have-

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