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Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals

Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals

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Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson are anthropologists based in America. Their partnership was central to the development of Dual-Inheritance Theory, a framework that applies Darwinian evolution to culture and explains how genes and culture have intertwined to shape our species.

This is their first ever joint interview.

Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/boyd-and-richerson/

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Robert Boyd & Peter Richerson — How Ice Age Climate Chaos Made Humans Cultural Animals

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