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247 | Samuel Bowles on Economics, Cooperation, and Inequality

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Conflict Between Cultural Success and Biological Disasters

Smoking and cities are examples of cultural success but biological disasters. Despite the high death rates in cities, people kept moving there due to the cultural selection process overshadowing the biological one.

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