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5GQ Mark Moffett - The Human Swarm

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In this week's Five Good Questions, we're interviewing Mark Moffett about his book, The Human Swarm.

Mark Moffett is a tropical biologist and explorer known for finding rare species and behavior in remote places. His research has extended from the architecture of rainforest canopies to the behavior of army ants. For the last six years he has been merging psychology and anthropology to investigate the role of social identity in holding societies together across species and in humans up to the present day.

Five Good Questions 1. What is so remarkable about being able to walk into a modern day coffee shop? 2. What can ants, with their 250k neurons, teach us about human societies? 3. Can we ever get rid of societies? 4. Is it possible the psychological bias known as the “endowment effect” is an artifact of our avoiding violent territorial conflicts? 5. Tell us a funny or surprising anecdote about E.O. Wilson.

And make sure you pick up your copy of the Rebel Allocator, available now on Amazon in digital, physical, and audiobook formats!

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In this week's Five Good Questions, we're interviewing Mark Moffett about his book, The Human Swarm.

Mark Moffett is a tropical biologist and explorer known for finding rare species and behavior in remote places. His research has extended from the architecture of rainforest canopies to the behavior of army ants. For the last six years he has been merging psychology and anthropology to investigate the role of social identity in holding societies together across species and in humans up to the present day.

Five Good Questions 1. What is so remarkable about being able to walk into a modern day coffee shop? 2. What can ants, with their 250k neurons, teach us about human societies? 3. Can we ever get rid of societies? 4. Is it possible the psychological bias known as the “endowment effect” is an artifact of our avoiding violent territorial conflicts? 5. Tell us a funny or surprising anecdote about E.O. Wilson.

And make sure you pick up your copy of the Rebel Allocator, available now on Amazon in digital, physical, and audiobook formats!

  continue reading

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