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5. The Most Selfish People on Earth
Sideways
The Importance of Generosity in a Time of Extreme Famine
Catherine was discovering that the ik were different to the narcissists described by Turnbull. They are aware of the importance of generosity and they are quite consciously aware that it's also a little bit of an insurance policy. So they've got a very well-established culture of sharing and of generosity, which is not what Turnbull thought. If you look cross-culturally, extreme famine circumstances, you will find that actually people lose the capacity to share psychologically, physically with one another. That is a cross-cultural physiological reaction to starvation, unfortunately, and it has nothing to do with culture at all.
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