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Dr Gad Saad: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense - Ask Dr. Drew - Episode 33

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Is It Possible to Study Cross Cultural Differences?

Behavioral ecologist studies cross cultural differences as adaptive responses. So culture itself can be malleable in ways that are perfectly in line with evolutionary thinking. If you look at the distribution of the use of spices across cuisines around the world, if you were simply a culture anthropologist, you would simply revel at demonstrating that Mexican food is spicier than Swedish food. The next question to ask is why? And it turns out that the hotter the ambient temperature that the culture is in, the more you'll have a proliferation of foodborne pathogens. Use of spices as an antimicrobial solution to an ecological problem within that niche. You are using culture, in this case cuisine,

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