092 - How Violent Was Our History, Really? A Conversation with Daniele Bolelli
From The Strenuous Life Podcast
I love this episode where I talked with historian Daniele Bolelli. In it we talked about a huge number of topics including...
- His process of researching and producing History on Fire, one of the leading history podcasts - How to get rid of weight cutting in mixed martial arts competition - The evidence for and against an ultra-violent human past vs a peaceful noble savage model of our hunter-gatherer past. - The rise of MMA in Asia. - Daniele's proposed 'Gladiators for World Peace' program and how it's going to get him the Nobel Peace Prize - His return to Italy as a tourist - Is it too soon to tell whether we're moving towards a more peaceful future? - Ötzi the iceman, Neanderthal DNA in our genomes, and a mass murder that occurred 430,000 years ago (http://bit.ly/1JYX91M) - And much more!
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