Michael Morris

You also see at this time the tools, much more sophisticated tools that required a lot more work are showing up at this time. And the idea is that people started to have a new motivation, not just a motivation to be normal, which is the peer instinct, but a motivation to be normative, to be a contributor to be more respected than the average person in the group. And how do you do that?

Well, you have to make sacrifices for the group. You kind of take a personal hit to benefit somebody else. But you also have to know what the group values, and that's not always trivial. And so a cognitive quirk that came along with the hero instinct is this idea of emulating people in the group with status.

Well, you have to make sacrifices for the group. You kind of take a personal hit to benefit somebody else. But you also have to know what the group values, and that's not always trivial. And so a cognitive quirk that came along with the hero instinct is this idea of emulating people in the group with status.

Well, you have to make sacrifices for the group. You kind of take a personal hit to benefit somebody else. But you also have to know what the group values, and that's not always trivial. And so a cognitive quirk that came along with the hero instinct is this idea of emulating people in the group with status.

So we look to the sort of cultural heroes in our community as beacons of what does the group value as a contribution and we We look for distinctive quirks or behaviors of those people and we tend to emulate them. And this is also something that we often deride today because it is this kind of superficial status-seeking, like I saw... You know, LeBron James wears these sneakers.

So we look to the sort of cultural heroes in our community as beacons of what does the group value as a contribution and we We look for distinctive quirks or behaviors of those people and we tend to emulate them. And this is also something that we often deride today because it is this kind of superficial status-seeking, like I saw... You know, LeBron James wears these sneakers.

So we look to the sort of cultural heroes in our community as beacons of what does the group value as a contribution and we We look for distinctive quirks or behaviors of those people and we tend to emulate them. And this is also something that we often deride today because it is this kind of superficial status-seeking, like I saw... You know, LeBron James wears these sneakers.

So I'm wearing these sneakers. It doesn't I still can't dunk. You know, it doesn't really help, you know, but I'm trying to be like LeBron. Right. That there's there's a silly side of it. It leads to superstitious learning in some cases. But in general, it provided a sort of engine of innovation and adaptive cultural change.

So I'm wearing these sneakers. It doesn't I still can't dunk. You know, it doesn't really help, you know, but I'm trying to be like LeBron. Right. That there's there's a silly side of it. It leads to superstitious learning in some cases. But in general, it provided a sort of engine of innovation and adaptive cultural change.

So I'm wearing these sneakers. It doesn't I still can't dunk. You know, it doesn't really help, you know, but I'm trying to be like LeBron. Right. That there's there's a silly side of it. It leads to superstitious learning in some cases. But in general, it provided a sort of engine of innovation and adaptive cultural change.

Because imagine an early agricultural group where everybody was planting one kind of peas and then somebody starts to plant corn or something or yams. And then that tends to grow well because maybe the climate changed or maybe the group migrated to a different

Because imagine an early agricultural group where everybody was planting one kind of peas and then somebody starts to plant corn or something or yams. And then that tends to grow well because maybe the climate changed or maybe the group migrated to a different

Because imagine an early agricultural group where everybody was planting one kind of peas and then somebody starts to plant corn or something or yams. And then that tends to grow well because maybe the climate changed or maybe the group migrated to a different

different ecology and the younger generation sees that and they will emulate that and then you'll have a sort of gradual shift of the culture towards what's working you know currently or working in the new

different ecology and the younger generation sees that and they will emulate that and then you'll have a sort of gradual shift of the culture towards what's working you know currently or working in the new

different ecology and the younger generation sees that and they will emulate that and then you'll have a sort of gradual shift of the culture towards what's working you know currently or working in the new

new environment so while we can deride status seeking this hero instinct it was a it was a way for individuals to become rewarded by the group to have status and tributes you know and and it's funny you know anthropologists there's a certain you know group of anthropologists who are really invested in the idea that in hunter-gatherer groups there was absolutely no hierarchy

new environment so while we can deride status seeking this hero instinct it was a it was a way for individuals to become rewarded by the group to have status and tributes you know and and it's funny you know anthropologists there's a certain you know group of anthropologists who are really invested in the idea that in hunter-gatherer groups there was absolutely no hierarchy

new environment so while we can deride status seeking this hero instinct it was a it was a way for individuals to become rewarded by the group to have status and tributes you know and and it's funny you know anthropologists there's a certain you know group of anthropologists who are really invested in the idea that in hunter-gatherer groups there was absolutely no hierarchy

that everybody was totally equal and that it was like classical communism. You know, like food was distributed according to need. Everyone's starved. And the reason for this, like in the Bushmen, you know, the Bushmen of, which for a while you weren't supposed to say the word Bushmen. Now you're supposed to say Bushmen again, apparently.