Leigh Martinuzzi

The Social Leap Bill von Hippel is the author of The Social Leap a book that explores how significant life challenges throughout our evolution has shaped some of the most fundamental aspects of our being. Using the evolutionary science of our past Bill shares a new perspective on human psychology. For example, moving from the rainforests to the plans of the Savanna forced us to cooperate and this alone has had a major cascading effect on many of our human advances. An inspiring conversation that left me wondering, what will be our next social leap and are we already in it. Enjoy the show. Guest Bio William von Hippel grew up in Alaska, got his B.A. at Yale and his PhD at the University of Michigan, and then taught for a dozen years at Ohio State University before finding his way to Australia, where he is a professor of psychology at the University of Queensland. He has published more than a hundred articles and chapters, and his research has been featured in The New York Times, USA Today, The Economist,