Behaviour and Evolution with Professor Nichola Raihani

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Adrienne Herbert

Society & Culture

4.8 • 713 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Adrienne speaks with Nichola Raihani who is a British psychologist who is a Professor of Evolution and Behaviour at University College London. Her research considers the evolution of cooperation in nature. She was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology in 2019. Her first book, The Social Instinct, was released in 2021, an exhilarating, far-reaching and thought-provoking journey through all life on Earth, with profound insights into what makes us human and how our societies work.

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0:00.0	Welcome back. Today I am joined by Nicola Reharni. Nicola is a psychologist and professor of evolution and behaviour at UCL, and her book, The Social Instinct, explores how cooperation shaped the world. Nicola, welcome to the podcast. Thank you for joining us.
0:21.4	Hi, thank you so much for having me on the podcast. I'm really looking forward to this
0:25.5	one. I personally am someone who's you know, I encourage myself and others to think and rethink,
0:32.1	to challenge your own bias and to just always be open to learning. So I'm often listening to lots of different books.
0:38.7	I'll be listening to lots of different podcasts. And on this podcast, I speak to different people each week and different industries with varying expertise.
0:47.3	And the key thing that I want my listeners to take away are, of course, some insights and some ideas that they can use themselves to impact their
0:56.3	own lives and the lives of others around them. So that could be habit and behaviour change. It could
1:01.9	be listening to the show to get motivated or to increase discipline or just an opportunity to
1:08.8	listen and learn and get inspired. So so many questions for you
1:12.8	today, Nicola, and I know that the work that you do, the book, it's all fascinating to me. So I think
1:19.1	a good place to start with you would be if you could tell us how and why you first started
1:25.4	investigating social behaviour in humans and in other species?
1:29.3	Sure. So I've always been sort of fascinated by social behaviour and I think partly that is because it's just so integral to what makes us human.
1:42.3	So I don't think there are any aspects of our lives that aren't affected by
1:47.5	social behaviour or by social interaction in some way. So, you know, even just considering something
1:53.6	as simple as your morning commute to some of our greatest achievements as a species, so things like sending rockets into space
2:03.1	or producing vaccines to a novel virus in under a year
2:07.9	or building the Sistine Chapel,
2:10.0	all of these kinds of things,
2:11.8	from the very, very mundane things that we take completely for granted,
2:15.7	all the way through to our greatest achievements,
2:18.3	hinge on our ability to interact productively with one another and to cooperate with one another.
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