Joseph Henrich

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1,282 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 25 May

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Right.

And the thing is, once something gets good, doing it differently almost always makes it worse.

Right.

So and then there's also some things are just different because people do it randomly different, like they make a mistake.

So I think people often underestimate the power of error in generating novelty.

Well, you probably as an adolescent were in school, right?

Yeah.

Here's an interesting fact about hunters.

So anthropologists have studied hunters, hunter-gathering societies in different places.

And the physical peak that at least males have is in their early 20s, right?

That's when they run the fastest.

They got the best eyesight.

But the best hunters in the community are 36 to 40, right?

They're not as fast as those guys, but they just know the track.

They know the animals.

They know exactly what to do in these differences.

And then hunting skill begins to decline because basically the physicality of things begins to catch up.

And so there's this kind of cycle.

And at 18, young hunters aren't even producing enough food to feed themselves.

So it's not until they get into their 20s that they're actually in surplus and bringing food home for everybody else.

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