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Nov 2022
43m 2s

Inventing Society with Yuval Noah Harari

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
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How did humans come to create society? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of “Sapiens” & “Unstoppable Us,” discuss our species’ ability to cooperate, the role of artificial intelligence, and more. 
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