{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Hunter-Gatherer Societies, Human Origins, and Modern Democracies with Vivek Venkataraman (Part 1)","description":"Originally published on January 8, 2025. Hunter-gatherer societies are fascinating in their own right and--with appropriate caution--a major source of insight about our ancestral past, stretching back to our origin as a species. Remarkably, hunter-gatherer societies also have much to teach us about modern Democratic governance. Vivek Venkataraman is an idea guide to this subject, with a background in philosophy, primatology, and human evolutionary biology, along with direct experience living with and researching indigenous people in Malaysia.&amp;nbsp; Check out the resources, articles, and more mentioned in this conversation! 4:21&amp;nbsp; A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons By Robert M. Sapolsky \u00b72007 12:37 The Goodness Paradox The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution By Richard Wrangham \u00b7 2019 14:30&amp;nbsp; Hierarchy in the Forest The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior By Christopher BOEHM \u00b7 2009 14:35 and 22:41&amp;nbsp; Moral Origins The Evolution of Virtue, Altruism, and Shame By Christopher Boehm \u00b7 2012 17:52 A Story of Us A New Look at Human Evolution By Lesley Newson, Peter J. Richerson \u00b7 2021 22:51 Morality from an Evolutionary Perspective with Simon Blackburn: https:\/\/www.prosocial.world\/posts\/morality-from-an-evolutionary-perspective-with-simon-blackburn 29:06 and 40:56 Man the Hunter Symposium 33:31 Eating Christmas in the Kalahari Richard Borshay Lee 37:23 Co-Residence Patterns in Hunter-Gatherer Societies Show Unique Human Social Structure Kim R. Hill , et al. 44:43&amp;nbsp; Variability in the organization and size of hunter-gatherer groups: Foragers do not live in small-scale societies 46:28&amp;nbsp; The Evolution of Subjective Commitment to Groups: A Tribal Instincts Hypothesis Peter J. Richerson and Robert Boyd, 2011 48:23&amp;nbsp; Human social organization during the Late Pleistocene: Beyond the nomadic-egalitarian model Manvir Singh and Luke Glowacki, 2022 50:20 The Dawn of Everything A New History of Humanity By David Graeber, David Wengrow \u00b7 2021 57:19 Society Against the State: Essays in Political Anthropology by Pierre Clastres, 1987 ","author_name":"This View of Life","author_url":"http:\/\/thisviewoflife.libsyn.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/35958165\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/e86600\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/186495895"}