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Ep. 640: Alison Gopnik Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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The Paradox of Play

Play is another one of those sort of evolutionary paradoxical, evolutionary paradoxical phenomenon because not just humans, but all young animals play. So for example, baby rats wrestle and fight. It isn't any one specific thing that they do, but it's how flexible and resilient they are. That's our great evolutionary niche. We're the ones who are really adapted. Well, what I think sometimes is we're adapted to the unknown unknowns, theunknown unknowns, that's where we live. And so playing around actually helps.

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