#085 - Professor Nicholas Christakis - How Evolution Shaped Our Societies

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Nicholas Christakis is a Professor at Yale University and an author.

Much of what I've covered on the podcast has focussed on evolution's effects on the individual, but today we look at how evolution has shaped us as a collective.

Expect to learn... Why is it that we live in groups? Why can we (mostly) rely on the person we're talking to to not lie to us, or kill us on sight? Why can we recognise different faces so effectively? And why do we even have different faces in the first place?

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0:44.3	On to today's guest, Professor Nicholas Christakis from Yale University had one of my favourite
0:51.0	episodes of Joe Rogan's podcast so far this year.
0:54.6	When I was super excited to get him on Modern Wisdom, we're talking about the evolutionary
1:00.0	basis for society.
1:02.0	Why we're not lying to each other or killing each other on site all the time.
1:07.0	How come evolution appears to have biased towards us living in groups instead of on our own?
1:13.0	How we can tell each other's faces apart and why we even have different looking faces
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