In a recent interview with the Behavioral Scientist's Evan Nesterak, Michael Muthukrishna, an Associate Professor of Economic Psychology at the London School of Economics, expands upon the arguments made in his book, A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going.
"The theory of everyone, at its core, is that there are four laws that have always governed the evolution of all of life," Muthukrishna says. The laws are: the law of energy; the law of innovation, by which we innovate new and efficient ways to use that energy; the law of cooperation, by which we work together to outcompete others; and the law of evolution, which has three ingredients: diversity, transmission, and selection. These laws drive both genetic and cultural evolution.
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