📚 5 Books mentioned in "William Von Hippel - How We Evolved" of Modern Wisdom
Here’s a list of all the books mentioned in this episode. Click on the links to watch specific excerpts on YouTube and feel free to purchase the books if they caught your interest!
Catching Fire
Buy Catching Fire by Richard Wrangham on Amazon
so Richard Wrangham talks about that is wonderful book Catching Fire how basically in order to develop the big brain that we have that's supported by such a small gut you need to be eating a lot of me
The guest, William von Hippel, mentions Richard Wrangham and his book 'Catching Fire' in the context of the role of cooking in human evolution.
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Consciousness Genesis In Artificial Intelligence
and then if you read super intelligence with a fantastic book on on AI by Professor Nick Bostrom from the future humanities Institute of Oxford you know if there's so many different ways that we can [ __ ] this up like many from ways and it's nearly infinite
The host mentions reading 'Superintelligence' by Professor Nick Bostrom in the context of risks associated with AI development.
Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth
Buy Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth by Adam Frank on Amazon
I think I did a podcast with Professor Adam Frankie wrote light of us stars and he identified that one of the byproducts of any world girdling civilization is going to be the level of global warming that we have because you can't have the energy you need for this civilization without the byproduct of the greenhouse gases and so on and so forth
The host mentions a previous podcast with Professor Adam Frank, stating that he wrote 'Light of Us Stars' (likely 'The Light of the Stars').
The Purpose of Reality
Buy The Purpose of Reality by Steve Simpson on Amazon
and this is really beginning with wonderful research by Steve Simpson who's a biologist spent much of his career at Oxford and is now at Sydney University and since schon he's got a wonderful book the nature of nutrition he's shown very clearly that if you vary the protein levels in food animals will weigh over eat carbohydrates in order to get enough protein
The guest mentions Steve Simpson and his book 'The Nature of Nutrition' in the context of research on protein as a limiting factor in appetite.
The Social Leap
Buy The Social Leap by William von Hippel on Amazon
very fortunately we've managed to find a slot in Bill's book to which he's currently undergoing in America and I managed to sit down with him to go through his new book the social leap the new evolutionary science of who we are where we come from and what makes us happy
The host introduces the guest, William von Hippel, and mentions that they will be discussing his new book, stating its full title.