Language and Myth: How Culture Extends Human Evolution @RalstonCollegeSavannah
Language and Myth: How Culture Extends Human Evolution @RalstonCollegeSavannah
Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Dr Bret Weinstein (@DarkHorsePod) uses the childhood acquisition of language to illustrate the composite nature of adaptation as being both genetic and cultural.

An excerpt from our just released Sophia Lectures – Tractable Miracles.

Watch the full lectures here: https://www.ralston.ac/the-sophia-lectures/bret-weinstein-heather-heying-sophia-lectures-2025
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Language and Myth: How Culture Extends Human Evolution

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