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SIO417: Does Our Evolutionary History Doom Us To Failure?

SIO417: Does Our Evolutionary History Doom Us To Failure?

Update: 2024-01-11

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When it comes to climate change, for example, it can certainly feel that way. Dr. Timothy Waring from The University of Maine has written a paper exploring these ideas. He's an expert in Cultural Evolution, and he believes that new lens may give us a clearer picture of our mysterious inability to solve many of these big challenges.

You can read the paper here: Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions

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SIO417: Does Our Evolutionary History Doom Us To Failure?

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