Joseph Henrich
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 25 May
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And they have a whole package of social practices, which helps keep them interconnected.
And then they have bows and arrows, which the group they're exterminating as they go along, the Dorset, doesn't have.
They have dogs and sleds.
They have along the coast, they have boats.
So they're doing whaling activities.
So there's a whole package that puts together that allows them to out-compete and eventually exterminate the Dorset.
And one of the things that happens, though, is the Dorset probably had better technology, but they expanded, they spread out, their languages diversified, they lost contact, and they began losing technology.
So you want to see this as a dynamic pulse.
There were probably expansions and then collapses, another expansion, another collapse, right?
It's not one giant long march to victory.
Yeah, I think there's a cultural evolutionary dynamic that's part of this because languages will naturally diversify.
And then as that diversify, there's less contact.
People sometimes get inclined to marry endogamously.
And especially if there's enough people around locally, why go all the way over there?
And those people are getting more culturally different.
So they're seeming a little bit like outsiders.
And then, yeah.
Interesting.
Okay.
So the tough part that humans have always had is to stay unified because of the natural effect of geography and learning locally is going to tend to fragment us.
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