Many Minds | 9 December 2020 | 1h 09m | Listen Later | iTunes
Interview with Brian Hare about his book Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding our Origins and Rediscovering our Common Humanity, co-authored with Vanessa Woods. Discusses the evidence that as we domesticated farm animals to make them tamer and easier to work with, we also seem to have domesticated ourselves. Argues that self-domestication was the force that allowed ancient humans to develop larger social networks and, in turn, more sophisticated technologies.