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Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)

Are humans the most intelligent species, or just the most arrogant? NYU primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape, believes that human exceptionalism is a myth that does more harm than good. Listen as she speaks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about how research has skewed our understanding of animals' capabilities, the surprising inner lives of animals, and how a shift from dominance toward connection with the larger living world can help humanity.

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  Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)

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  Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)

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  The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with …

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  The Status Game (with Will Storr)

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  The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)

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  Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)

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  Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher)

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  A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)

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  Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

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  The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)

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  The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)

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  Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz)

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  Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

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  How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)

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  How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)