
ERRR #038. Peter Gray on the Freedom to Learn
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How Do Hunter-Gathering Children Become Educated?
Peter Cevallos is an evolutionary developmental psychologist. His work focuses primarily on the ways in which natural selection predisposes us to learn in certain ways. The second chapter of his book was all about the play field lives of hunter-gatherer children. We were hunter-gatherers for hundreds of thousands of years, and agriculture has only been around 10,000 years. So at least 99% of our biological history, we were all hunter- Gatherers.
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