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Quintin Torres breaks down how human evolution shaped both our intellect and our instinct to fight. From the bone structure of our skulls to the rise of the prefrontal cortex, he explains how thousands of generations of survival pressure hardwired humans to be both strategic and combative. But here’s the twist — what once ensured survival might now hold the key to peace. Quintin explores how competition, not war, can satisfy our primal drives — and how modern outlets like sports and martial arts might be humanity’s healthiest way forward. Full episode 👉 https://youtu.be/BycFPn3sK14 #HumanEvolution #ScienceFacts #Neuroscience #Shorts #Evolution #HumanNature #Science #Anthropology #Intelligence #Mindset #Competition #Peace #Shorts #QuintinTorres #podcast
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If you look at most primates, the orbitals around their skull are not are not reinforced with bone. They're actually they actually come outwards. They're external. Ours are internal. And we have all this hardy bone around our head which kind of promoted. And if you look at a primate skull, the forehead is actually flatter. It doesn't come out. And so the more males that have been able to compete well, that can hunt well, that can see well, that can talk well after like, and we're talking thousands of years, guys, like we're talking hundreds of generations. This takes a long ass [ __ ] time. But the males that can withstand more blows to the head more efficiently, more bone starts to adapt, those males live. And every generation the skull got more protruded forward and forward and forward which also made space for the preffrontal cortex to start growing more and that's where thinking calculation problem solving really starts to happen in the prefrontal core cortex. So it's a double feedback loop. So the males that have more hearty bone that can take the punches to out compete also were the males that had more space for the brain to start growing and only those ones reproduced. All the other males who couldn't, they all died out. That's why we all have this natural innate ability to fight and think. It's in our G, it's in our DNA. It will never go away. It'll actually be very bad for male health and female health for this to go away. So, what we need to do is we need to actually move away from war that creates uh fatality and get more into competition that keeps people alive. And I think there's a re I think well there was because right now it's not going in that direction. But if you look at the rise in superpower warfare dramatically started to decrease the moment real heavy martial arts competition started to increase because now we have a space where males can compete in a way that doesn't equal death. They can survive and you can compete again. You can redeem yourself. So there's a feedback loop where we have a space to express this. Now when you get into war, that's a whole another crazy, you know, like complex sort of issue that I haven't quite fully understood. But it it the answer is will ever go away? No. Violence will never go away. But can violence be controlled in a way so more of us live? Yes. That is that is the way. as the great as Mandalorian said that is the path we need to push things towards because that's how we have world peace just like that's how we have horror movies why do we like horror movies you know why do we like movies where people are getting like their heads cut off and you know they're in trust like saw like the guy's cutting his arm off like because it represents it represents an artificial expression of experiencing gore and horror which is a huge part of our lives before modern society showed You know, we were gutting deers. We had to kill other rival tribes. Like, experiencing grotesque gore was just a part of being an animal. But now we don't experience it anymore. So, we need something to like see it, you know, to like to to get that get that reward mechanism satisfied.