Source
Unleash Your Primal Brain
Tim Ash's book arguing that most everyday decisions are driven by evolved, largely unconscious traits rather than deliberate rationality — source for the System 1/System 2 split, the evolutionary basis of cultural transmission and mirror neurons, storytelling's role in tribal cohesion, and decision fatigue among Israeli parole judges.
Discussed in
- Episode 53 — 53- Do our ancestors dictate our decisions