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Chris Burcher

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Apr 28

Yet Somehow We Got Egypt

The Mystery

Yet Somehow We Got Egypt

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May 3, 2025

Not Taking Things Personally Is the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Tried to Do

But it may be the most rewarding skill we can learn

Not Taking Things Personally Is the Hardest Thing I’ve Ever Tried to Do

Chris Burcher

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Sep 30

What’s Happened to Humans Over the Past 10,000 Years?

How changing our environments may have changed us.

What’s Happened to Humans Over the Past 10,000 Years?

Chris Burcher

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Aug 19

How Assholes Stay in Charge

The locking-in mechanisms

How Assholes Stay in Charge

Chris Burcher

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Jul 1

The First Artificial Selection

Power becomes hereditary.

The First Artificial Selection

Chris Burcher

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Jun 22

Who We Used to Be

When enough was truly enough.

Who We Used to Be

Chris Burcher

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Jun 12

Ancestral Ways of Knowing

How did we used to know things?

Ancestral Ways of Knowing

Chris Burcher

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Jun 6

We Have It All Wrong

Humans will never outsmart Nature

We Have It All Wrong

Chris Burcher

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May 7

Nature is Our Ally

Why cooperation > competition in diverse ecosystems

Nature is Our Ally

Chris Burcher

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May 6

A Meaningful Series of Events

Our Pathway to Modernity

A Meaningful Series of Events

Chris Burcher

Chris Burcherhe/him

The 10,000‑Year Problem — how we went from cooperative communities to extractive civilizations, and whether we can find our way back. www.chrisburcher.com

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