Hey everybody, Dylan here.

So before we get into today's episode, I just wanted to say that this one is a little

bit special, and it's special for a couple of reasons.

One, it's a subject matter that I just care about and I'm interested in.

It's about parenting and intentional communities.

And two, because it was made in collaboration with one of my all-time favorite podcasts,

Freakonomics.

So this show actually aired as part of one of their larger episodes.

If you are new to the show, if you've come here from Freakonomics, welcome.

We have many, many things to show you, so many wonders to share with you.

We hope you stay and check out some of the other stories.

All right, let's get to it.

In Southern Turkey, there's an archaeological site called Chateauhuyuk.

Chateauhuyuk is over 9,000 years old, and it has one massive structure where a bunch

of people lived.

The structure's roof was a shared collective space, essentially one big community-wide living

room that had holes with ladders leading down into individual dwellings.

Those individual units were presumably four individual families, except that when archaeologists

actually looked at the bones.

The thing that shocked them was that the people that were buried in the hearth were not

biologically related to each other.

They were not blood-related kin.

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