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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

Heather Heying

A bold, provocative history of our species finds the roots of civilization's success and failure in our evolutionary biology.

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The Ben Shapiro Show

The book addressed the challenges of modern life through the lens of evolution, covering topics like murder, rape, genocide, and war from an evolutionary perspective. It aimed to provide a toolkit for understanding reality using evolutionary thinking, especially when ancestral wisdom falls short in a rapidly changing world.

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Their new book is a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century, evolution and the challenges of modern life. In our episode, we spend the hour breaking those challenges down.

— Episode: Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying | The...

Episode: Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying | The Ben Shapir...

The book addressed the challenges of modern life through the lens of evolution, covering topics like murder, rape, genocide, and war from an evolutionary perspective. It aimed to provide a toolkit for understanding reality using evolutionary thinking, especially when ancestral wisdom falls short in a rapidly changing world.

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Their new book is a hunter-gatherer's guide to the 21st century, evolution and the challenges of modern life. In our episode, we spend the hour breaking those challenges down.

And because of the material that Brett and I were teaching and is in our new book, we were taking on questions of what are the evolutionary underpinnings of truly horrifying human behaviors like murder and rape and genocide and war.

And the key is to recognize that that's what we're doing and to rise to consciousness and bootstrap the solution to that puzzle so that we can be here a hundred five hundred a thousand years from now.

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