In this lecture Dr. Shermer considers the evolutionary origins of trade through the study of the economy as an evolving complex adaptive system grounded in a human nature that evolved functional adaptations to survival as a social primate species in the Paleolithic epoch in which we evolved. That is, the economy is a very complex system that changed and adapted to circumstances as it evolved out of a much simpler system, that we spent the first 90,000 years of our lives as hunter-gatherers living in small bands, and that this environment created a psychology not always well equipped to understand or live in the modern world.
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Topics addressed: evolution and/or creationism
Resource type: powerpoint and keynote presentations
Academic discipline: psychology
Academic level: college and university
Resource type: powerpoint and keynote presentations
Academic discipline: psychology
Academic level: college and university
