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Episode 40: Philipp Blom

The World in Time / Lapham’s Quarterly

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The Evolutionary Turbo Drive

Human nature may not change but human behavior can and does so that is what we're talking about. Well it's our sort of evolutionary turbo drive you know other animals have their DNA and the DNA can change but that takes a long time many generations. I think the kind of impasse we have come to as Western society especially in our use of energy in our industrial development they mean that perhaps we should look to our ability to generate culture to see whether we can't change this narrative.

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