Wired for Culture: The natural history of human cooperation

*Please be aware that there are some images used in this talk of a violent nature.
Mark Pagel, one of the world's leading experts on human evolution and development, visits the RSA to investigate our species' capacity for culture, cooperation and community.

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[Jon Smith]

can you please turn this talk into a whiteboard animation? :)

[The RSA]

Hi, glad you enjoyed the talk I am afraid that we don't have any plans at the moment to turn this video into an RSA Animate but we do hope to have a new video from our RSA Animate series landing soon.

[managarm1349]

RSA is in the 0.0001% of youtube that´s useful/interesting to me. thanks for that! :)

[The RSA]

Thanks for your comment, great to hear that you enjoy our videos.

[Charlotte Pierce]

Animate! Animate! :-) This was in the required reading for Howard Rheingold's "Literacy of Cooperation" course. Enjoyed it very much.

[Tressco]

Alas, it's communism/cooperation for the elite - capitalism/competition for the peasants!

"Competition is a sin."

- John D. Rockefeller

[firehot006]

Also, it took me all of 30 seconds to find a page talking about the latest theories on the flagellum motor which dispel the myths Cremo came up with. Check out the external links at the bottom of the wikipedia page.

[firehot006]

Well from the videos and research I have seen it appears we are extremely close to discovering how life originated from inorganic matter, so to simply state that there were no conditions for creating the amino-acids needed is to state something which we can't rule out. Saying we don't yet know how life came about still doesn't disprove the theory of evolution.

[maxgunn555]

the one place you should actually read comments.

[Eireanngobrach87]

I agree with your stance against a world government, however I believe it unfair to include only "communist societies" explicitly as having committed atrocities and labeling them "for the greater good." Many prominent political/economic ideologies would be hard-pressed to prove that atrocities of similar scope have not been carried out under their regime - capitalism being on the top of the list.

[kakudmi]

That is just one argument against it; life cannot originate from matter because in prebiotic times there were no conditions for creating essential amino-acids. Another argument is the fundamental fallacy of the evolution presented in the "flagellum motor" example. But Michael Cremo only confirms those arguments because so far there were discovered too many artifacts that clearly suggest humans have been around for a long time. But accepting those arguments does not make you a religious fanatic.

[firehot006]

Even though I fundamentally disagree with your time scale of human evolution, how does the timing of when humans evolved dispute the basic premise of Darwin's Theory of Evolution?

[kakudmi]

Well if humans have been around for more than several millions years, or more, clearly the whole premise on how humans came to existence takes a whole new perspective.

thanks

[firehot006]

But that doesn't remotely disprove the fact of evolution. I've already read the comments section on his site with comments from scientists pointing out that he is talking out of his arse. He clearly has no credibility.