Darcia Narvaez - How Child Development Impacts Human Morality

Darcia Narvaez is a professor of psychology whose work explores the neurobiology of moral development, evolved parenting practices, and small-band hunter-gatherer societies. In 2020, she was identified as one of the top 2 percent of scientists worldwide in a recent analysis of 8 million scientists around the world. She is the president of Kindred World a non-profit dedicated to creating a wisdom-based worldview and the founder of the Evolved Nest a Kindred World initiative that integrates findings across various fields that bear on child development, child raising, and adult behavior while promoting optimal health and wellbeing, cooperation and sociomoral intelligences. She is the author of several books including the award-winning Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality. In this episode, we speak about the optimal environment for early child development and how our modern culture falls short of this, navigating order & chaos in parenting, the surprising truth about nature & nurture, how the collaboration and competition dynamic is related to left & right brain views of the world, contrasting views of wisdom, and so much more.


🔗 [Links & resources] 🔗

Darcia’s personal site - https://darcianarvaez.com/
The Evolved Nest (site) - https://evolvednest.org/
Neurobiology and the Development of Human Morality by Darcia Narvaez - https://www.amazon.com/Neurobiology-Development-Human-Morality-Interpersonal/dp/0393706559
Breaking the Cycle of Competitive Detachment (short film) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jATflgNvl-E
Reimagining Humanity (short film) - ​​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_JR5fcrKkI&list=PLKSc66Q_SuJPviwCKee4mMaXyVm0TUFtM&index=21
The Evolved Nest (short film) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo54PdNnNPg&list=PLUh7caZTn4oAV5K6Pg8GLpK7GgMtxs_Tl&index=2&t=9s
( full list on YouTube page)


📝 [Show notes] 📝

0:00 - Introduction
2:01 - An overview of Darcia’s work
5:22 - The role of safety in morality
7:29 - The optimal environment for early child development
15:42 - The importance of breastfeeding & co-sleeping
18:00 - How the modern world falls short of the evolved developmental niche
25:45 - Navigating Order & Chaos in Parenting
35:39 - What is the relationship between nature & nurture?
41:32 - How life for indigenous people was different than it is in the modern world
44:19 - Was war always a part of humanity?
54:18 - Relating the collaboration & competition dynamic to left and right brain views of the world
1:02:27 - Contrasting views of wisdom
1:07:58 - Resources & tools for creating a more wholesome life
1:14:07 - Learning to regulate our nervous systems through play
1:17:10 - Why returning to the evolved nest is critical for the world



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