[Unedited] Agustín Fuentes with Krista Tippett

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4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

We’ve realized in 2020 that the way we’ve organized culture — from the economy to race to work — could be done radically differently. We’ve been modeling our life together on “survival of the fittest” long after science itself moved on from that. And we’re learning to see that in every sphere of life we inhabit ecosystems. Agustín Fuentes brings spacious insight into all of this as a biological and evolutionary anthropologist, exploring how humans behave, function, and change together. In this conversation, he is full of refreshingly creative and practical fodder for the necessary reinvention ahead.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute, helping build the
0:04.4	Spiritual Foundation for a Loving World. Fetzer envisions a world that embraces love as a guiding
0:10.3	principle and animating force for our lives, a powerful love that helps us live in sacred
0:15.2	relationship with ourselves, others, and the natural world. Learn more by visiting Fetzer.org.
0:22.3	I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with biological and evolutionary
0:28.4	anthropologist Augustine Fuentes on our species moment. There is, as always, a shorter produced
0:35.5	version of this wherever you found this podcast. Hi. Hi, Christa. Good to meet you. Hey, would
0:44.0	you say your name? I want to make sure that I say it the way you do. Yeah, Augustine. So Augustine,
0:48.9	Augustine is fine. It's spelled in Spanish, so it's hard to pronounce. Yeah, no, I would try,
0:53.2	I would say Augustine. That's great. Excellent. Well, thank you for doing this. I want to just
1:02.3	give you a little bit of an idea of how I want to approach this, because you're so multi-disciplinary,
1:11.2	and I think all of it and the integration of all of that is such a relevant perspective on
1:19.6	this moment in time. So that's really, so we will, when we put the shot, we will
1:27.0	mention all of your books and adventures, but I don't want to talk to you about a specific book.
1:33.3	I want to talk about the sweep of your thinking. Sure, absolutely. We'll touch on different books,
1:39.3	but that's kind of just a frame what we're going to do, which I think will come naturally to do.
1:44.8	So yeah, do you have any questions of me before we begin? No, no, I'm ready to go.
1:53.1	All right. So Zach, are we ready? We're good. You're not speaking to me, so that's good.
2:00.9	Okay, excellent. All right. So I, so Augustine, I feel that you,
2:08.9	that the kinds of questions you ask in your work in these various fields you work in,
2:17.5	around how humans work and why we work and what we do and why we do it are really all variations
2:25.6	on that, the core question of what it means to be human. And so you take this up scientifically
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