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241 - The Status Game - Will Storr

You Are Not So Smart

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Is There a Way Out?

Questioned bark talks about the symbology and how it is so attuned to yams. Men of micronesia play a status game around growing massive, massive yams. The person who brings the biggest yam to the chief's feast in ina pompeii are literally declared number one. It just shows unbelievable thirst for achievement that humans have, says Heno.

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