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Value After Hours S04 E21: Chesterton's fence; When quality fails; Inflation, Data and Predictions

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The Seret of Our Success by Joseph Heinrich

There was a book called the seret of our success. It's hypothesis that humans succeeded because we have this raw intelligence. And heinrich argues that that may actually not be what our success came from. He says european explorers, they had the wrong cooking techniques for that environment. So you take a european to put em in that same acology, and they don't thrive because they don't have the cultural adaptation built up for it. Even our digestive system evolved along with us, with our culture. Our mouths are the size of squirrel monkeys,. Like chimps can open their mouths like twice as big to eat food than we can. We have really weak jaw muscles

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