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A World to Win: A History of Everything w/ David Wengrow

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What Is Human Nature Simply by Being Human?

If we 're moving beyond this pre crude, er catecorizationof peoples into different. psychological profiles based on race or where they come from, or whatever, what can we then learn about something called in inverted commes human nature? Well this really, i think, these kind of questions themselves have an interesting history, which comes out of what was called natural law theory. And it's a mistake to try and view thes som intellectual development as happening just within a european context. Actually, when you look at the modern evidence, there's a huge amount of it now flooding in from every corner of the world. There's no reason to believe that we're innately

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