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Professor Nicholas Christakis talks to Quillette's Jonathan Kay talks about his new book Blueprint

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Society & Culture, Politics, News, Science, News Commentary

4.6917 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Nicholas Christakis, Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale, talks to Jonathan Kay about his new book Blueprint and what evolution can teach us about overcoming conflict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to the Colette Podcast. My name is Claire Lehman and I am editor and chief of Colette.

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Colette is where Free Thought lives. We are an independent grassroots platform for heterodox ideas and fearless commentary.

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Our podcast is a team effort and is jointly hosted by myself,

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associate editor Toby Young and Canadian editor Jonathan Kay. You can support our podcast by visiting

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monthly patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.

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Welcome to the quilette podcast. patron you'll also receive our weekly newsletter.

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Welcome to the Quillett podcast.

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I'm Jonathan Kay, Quillett's Canadian editor.

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Yale University Professor Nicholas Christakis will be known to many many Colette podcast listeners for his principal defense of free expression during a widely reported controversy that erupted on his campus in 2015.

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But long before that episode, Professor Christakis had made a name for himself

0:56.3

as a leading scholar in the fields of sociology and medicine. He has been named to Time magazine's

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list of the world's hundred most influential people,

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as well as being designated a top global thinker by Foreign Policy magazine.

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Christacas's new book, Blueprint, The Evolutionary Origins of a good society, is an optimistic and persuasive tour

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to force that argues human beings are wired for productive and mostly peaceful coexistence.

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This week he spoke to me about his new book from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Here are excerpts from that interview.

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Your book is called Blueprint. A central thesis is that there is a single

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blueprint for the way humans organized into societies. Is this seen as a controversial idea in the

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field of social studies? Yes it is. First of all there's a long dispute let's

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say as to whether we should focus on the differences across human

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