📚 2 Books mentioned in "Joe Rogan Experience #1911 - Mark Boal" of The Joe Rogan Experience

well there's most certainly thinking if you you know study Stephen pinker's work this is the safest like most understanding least racist least violent least rapey time in human history If you go back and think of all the horrific crimes that have been committed since the beginning of time and you look at them on a scale even though we say oh there's so much chaos in the world today there's so much horror and that's absolutely true but there's less than there's ever been before it's better and you know they call Pinker an apologist for just talking about data but it's like very clear if you just look at the sheer numbers of murders the sheer numbers of all the horrific things that people have been known for forever there's less of them now than ever before

Joe mentions studying Stephen Pinker's work and describes his argument that violence has declined throughout human history.

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Did you read that book there I think it was called sapiens Yes because when you were talking about the um Ancient Man it made me think of that because I one of the things I remember from that book was that the homo sapien at least if I I could be misremembering this so correct me if I'm wrong but but one of his ideas was that people as we know it like basically murdered all of these other um like neanderthals and different like Hume different species of humanoids or whatever the correct term is and that's how we spread that there was like a a mass genocide

Joe asks Mark if he read the book "sapiens" and discusses the author's idea about Homo sapiens and the extinction of other human species.

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