Episode description
Bill von Hippel (@billvonhippel) is a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland and the author of The Social Leap: The New Evolutionary Science of Who We Are, Where We Come From, and What Makes Us Happy.
What We Discuss with Bill von Hippel:- What our eyes tell us about how humans evolved to cooperate with one another.
- How a psychological phenomenon called the theory of mind makes us aware that mental states of others don't match our own, and why this trait gives human beings a unique advantage in the animal kingdom.
- Why hunter-gatherer societies are more egalitarian than what we see in modern Western civilization.
- Why so many of us hate the way we look in photographs.
- Can animals lie?
- And much more...
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