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The Evolution Of A Renegade - David Sloan Wilson

The Joe Walker Podcast

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The Importance of Self-Interest in Science

Max Planck famously observed that science progresses one funeral at a time. Do you think it might be relatively harder to change your mind if you write an international best seller? You sort of building a prison for yourself with your own words, aren't you? It's hard to do an about face after that. How are they maintained in a population? So, let's talk about religion. Well, it's really interesting that not me, but in the literature, there are two major definitions of religions and they are completely different from each other. That is so interesting.

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