Maintaining Peaceful Societies w/ Douglas Fry

About this episode

The episode discusses the historical context of human societies that prioritized equality and collaboration over competition.

For millions of years, evidence suggests that humans lived in relatively equal societies, where food acquisition and child raising were shared activities among community members both men and women, together. It is apparent that our environments of evolutionary adaptation, selected for humans with evermore prosocial traits. Domination and competition were minimized in favor of collaboration and partnerships of mutual aid. The idea that any human was superior to another would have been an absur...

People in this episode

Host: Peter Michael Bauer

Guest: Douglas Fry

Topics covered

• peaceful societies
• equality
• collaboration
• prosocial traits
• human evolution

Keywords

• peaceful societies
• equality
• collaboration
• human evolution
• prosocial behavior

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