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The Michael Shermer Show · 2025-09-13 · 98 min · 15,709 words

The Fate of Nations: Why Ignoring Human Nature Dooms Politics

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Michael Shermer Show. All right, everybody. My guest today is Nicholas Wade The legendary science writer and scientists

Born in Aylesbury, England and educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge. Where he studied the natural sciences. He worked at Nature and Science, two weekly scientific magazines. Uh for the longest time, the most prestigious of

science magazines and for many years he was, of course, with the New York Times. Where I'm sure almost all of you have read something of his work over the years. He was an editorial writer and science editor. He's the author of four books on recent human evolution. before the dawn traces how people have evolved during the last fifty thousand years.

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