The state of nature: lessons from hunter-gatherers | Janis Strods | TEDxRiga

If you want your policy to work, your ideas to be as influential as possible, you should ask one simple question — on which every policy, of every politician (and teacher) all over the world is based on.

Watch Janis Strods' talk to discover that question and start looking for the answers — by learning from hunter-gatherers.

Janis Strods is currently a researcher with the Hunter-Gatherers Resilience project at University College London. While his colleagues work closely with hunter-gatherers in Congo and the Philippines, Janis listens to their stories and builds mathematical models to understand why hunter-gatherers share food the way they do (trying to get a Ph.D along the way).

When he is not busy translating human behaviour to computer code, Janis is crunching numbers with Edurio, a company that helps schools improve themselves, and playing board games. He can also occasionally be found hiking and teaching biological anthropology at Riga Stradins University.

Janis has previously written for Satori.lv and worked as a teacher at Iespējamā misija, the Latvian branch of Teach for All. He has studied politics at the University of York and human evolution at UCL.

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