WILD GENIUS
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00:00Every so often, someone comes along who sees the world differently.
00:14I believe, Lord, I believe too. I've seen the light.
00:19He has a feeling of wonderment. He has a feeling of wow.
00:23To hell with the view. I prefer to dream. I'm never afraid to make a fool of myself.
00:28Someone who is uncompromising.
00:30If you're for the truth, you have to be against falsehood.
00:35Someone who changed the way we see ourselves.
00:39Let's study a little psychology and see what they know.
00:42Well, they didn't know nothing.
00:44And nobody mentioned biology.
00:47Nobody mentioned natural selection.
00:50And therefore, nobody had a theory of function.
00:54We are all in this together, unified.
00:57I was in my anti-ego phase, which corresponded with the maximum size of my own ego.
01:03I'm an international pirate.
01:05The leadership at Harvard, I think, found him a little hard to take.
01:11Somebody like Trivers was definitely a round pig trying to fit into a square hole.
01:17There's never a dull moment around him.
01:20You couldn't get outside. You don't want a hyena eating your ass.
01:23Bob Trivers is one of the really greatest thinkers of evolutionary biology and theory that we have.
01:29Because he gave elegant answers to the fundamental questions of the human condition.
01:34He didn't care about differences between groups.
01:39But really about the universal human nature.
01:46I was a Black Panther enthusiast, really, before I ever met Huey Newton.
01:51The police in our community couldn't possibly be there to protect that property because we own no property.
01:57If I have a theory of self-deception that works for you, and works for you, but doesn't apply to myself, we got a little problem here.
02:08Our brains are vulnerable to a series of logical fallacies.
02:15As living things, as part of a natural world, what kinds of behavior and what kinds of motives and emotions would have been favored by evolution?
02:27Never assume the animal you're studying is as stupid as the one studying it.