The Kindness of Strangers with Michael McCullough

Economics Detective Radio by Garrett M. Petersen

Oct 11, 202059:44Science & Medicine

Today's guest is Michael McCullough of the University of California, San Diego. We are discussing his book The Kindness of Strangers: How a Selfish Ape Invented a New Moral Code . How did humans, a species of self-center...

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