Rachell Powell
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 26 Jan
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Because they do that.
Things like that.
Quarantine.
They had a functional germ theory of disease before we did.
I know it's funny, but it's actually kind of true.
And going back to your question about levels of explanation, which I think is important because it's kind of a way of...
not dissolving, but disarming potential conflicts between thinkers when we're talking about this.
If you're asking this question, why did humans become so cooperative?
Why did they become apex predators?
Why did they start to spread around the globe?
Why did they invent agriculture?
All these things.
When you ask that question,
compared to chimps, then you're gonna get a particular answer, right?
And that's gonna involve lots of human-specific adaptations that played a role.
But that's what I would call a divergentist explanation.
Why did humans diverge from these other close cases?
Here's an answer, and it is powerful.
It's an explanatorily powerful answer, but it's very narrow in scope because it only applies to that one-off kind of human case, which for all we know could be highly contingent.
There's no sort of law-like lesson from it.
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