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Let's Stick Together

Big Picture Science

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.5 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Crowded subway driving you crazy? Sick of the marathon-length grocery store line? Wish you had a hovercraft to float over traffic? If you are itching to hightail it to an isolated cabin in the woods, remember, we evolved to be together. Humans are not only social, we’re driven to care for one another, even those outside our immediate family.   We look at some of the reasons why this is so – from the increase in valuable communication within social groups to the power of the hormone oxytocin. Plus, how our willingness to tolerate anonymity, a condition which allows societies to grow, has a parallel in ant supercolonies. Guests: Adam Rutherford – Geneticist and author of “Humanimal: How Homo sapiensBecame Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature – a New Evolutionary History” Patricia Churchland – Neurophilosopher, professor of philosophy emerita at the University of California San Diego, and author most recently of “Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition” Mark Moffett – Tropical biologist, Smithsonian Institution researcher, and author of “The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive and Fall” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The corporate world is like the ocean. It's alluring, but it's also full of deadly

0:35.6

creatures that can shred you to pieces. It becomes kind of like a game of

0:39.2

throne's political arena where everyone's trying to murder you to get your job.

0:44.0

My family doesn't come from corporate background, so I didn't have any sort of guidance in that.

0:48.2

This is not your typical work podcast.

0:50.4

Sometimes you need to be empathetic.

0:52.0

And then there are times that you ask for input input but you don't really give a shit.

0:55.0

Listen to the and the award-nominated podcast, surfing corporate.

0:58.0

Stretch opportunity. What is it?

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Yovik class? Get out of here. I remember the last time I was in New York riding a jam-packed

1:15.7

train into Manhattan. The train was rumbling through a hot tunnel and it was

1:19.6

stuffed with poorly groomed protoplasm. A woman nearby was eating chicken nuggets and licking

1:25.3

her fingers. Some other guy had all too obviously never met a bar of soap and the clown

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