• David Samson on Making Tribes and Tribalism Work in the 21st century

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    In this episode, Andrew talks to the author of Our Tribal Future, David Samson, about how to channel our foundational human instincts into a force for good.

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    David R. Samson is an associate professor of Biological Anthropology at the University of Toronto. An interdisciplinary scholar investigating major behavioral and physiological transitions in human evolution, he has worked with a range of primate species and studied sleep in different types of human societies. Samson’s research has been internationally profiled in venues such as BBC, Time, the New York Times, The Smithsonian, CBC, NPR, and National Geographic. In his spare time, he is a practitioner of a medieval martial art in the Society of Creative Anachronism.


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