Tamás Dávid-Barrett

According to Tamás Dávid-Barrett, humanity is in an existential crisis - and in order to overcome this, we must understand the tremendous changes the fabrics of societies have undergone in recent decades. The scholar, who majored in anthropology, biology, and psychology at Cambridge, claims that family-centric societies transitioning to friendship-based ones has completely altered the collaborative capacity of our species. Could this hinder our ability to stop the climate crisis? Why do those who already have plenty always crave more? What does the globe’s collapse have to do with gender behavioral norms? Listen to the answers at Brain Bar from Tamás, a scientist at the University of Oxford and the Royal Anthropological Institute researching evolutionarily inherited behaviors. 

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