225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
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The Evolutionary Benefits of Specific Problems
Human behavior should be viewed as hierarchical and focused on solving specific problems which can have multiple sub-problems. Evolutionary pressure is not to make brains bigger but to solve specific problems such as collaborating to get food, which brings about cognitive, communicative, and socio-moral challenges. The benefit of having big brains should be specific, not vague like the ability to have podcasts in the future.
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