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The Jordan Harbinger Show

494: Rutger Bregman | Humankind: A Hopeful History

The Jordan Harbinger Show

Jordan Harbinger

Social Sciences, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Talk Radio, Business, Science, Education

4.812.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Daily headlines bringing you down? Take heart by listening to our conversation with Humankind: A Hopeful History author Rutger Bregman here!

Transcript

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Well, I like to call it the publication of humanity,

0:35.9

so you literally see that we look kinder,

0:40.0

friendlier than our ancestors.

0:42.4

We've domesticated ourselves, just like, you know,

0:45.3

dogs are domesticated, wolves basically.

0:47.6

You know, they've been selected for a very long time for

0:50.3

friendliness and nameness, and it's exactly the same process of domestication.

0:55.2

We also see it with humans.

0:57.5

And I think it's the secret of our success,

1:00.0

because it has enabled us to build something

1:02.3

this collective culture, this collective knowledge

1:04.8

that no other species has been able to do.

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