How Evolution Has Wired Us for Good

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In this episode of The Good Fight Podcast, Yascha Mounk talks to Nicholas Christakis, the Sterling professor of social and natural science at Yale University and the author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society, about whether human nature predisposes humans to conflict or cooperation—and what all of that has to do with populism.

Email: thegoodfight@newamerica.org
Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk

Podcast production by John T. Williams.

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