#1110 Willem Frankenhuis: Human Development in Harsh and Unpredictable Environments
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Hello everyone, welcome to a new episode of the Decentre. I'm your host as always, Ricard Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Willem Frankenhaus. He is an associate professor of evolutionary psychobiology at the University of Amsterdam and a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law. And today we're going to talk about harsh and unpredictable environments and how people
develop in there. So Dr. Frankenhaus, welcome to the show. It's a huge pleasure to have you one. Thank you for reminding me.
So what characterizes harsh and unpredictable environments? What counts as such? Yeah, that's a a great place to start. So as with many concepts in the field, there are different definitions out there, but the most widely used one, especially in the human field, is to define harshness as age-specific rates of morbidity and mortality. So like morbidity could be damage to the body, for example, and mortality speaks for itself.
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