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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

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The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society

Are human beings fundamentally good or bad? Does society keep us in check or corrupt us?  From Aristotle to Freud, Hobbes to Rousseau, philosophers and ethicists have pondered these ideas for centuries, perhaps with the reasonable expectation that they may be unanswerable questions.  But could science finally provide an answer? Nicholas Christakis is the Director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University and Author of Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society