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How does our human nature inform the way we make society?

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The Factory of Humanity.

© Robert Laffont

By: Caroline Lachowsky

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How does our human nature inform the way we make society?

How has our brain, a product of evolution, also produced our family and economic organizations, our religions, our beliefs, our cultures, and our ethics?

What if it was time to question the fabric of our humanity? 

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Let's take another look at the fabric of our humanity.

What mechanisms have pushed the humans that we are, to live in society, and to cooperate (or not) to form families, clans, religions and nations to render justice, to design the economy?

What if, to better understand the fabric of humanity, it was time to summon not only the human sciences, but also evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, neurosciences whose advances open us up to a new understanding of our nature and our cultures?

How does our human nature inform the way we make society?

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, American anthropologist of French origin, director of research at the CNRS and, since 2000, professor at the University of Washington in Saint-Louis where he holds the Henry Luce Chair.

For his book 

 Éditions Robert Laffont.

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