Primitive Roots: Social Status & Biochemistry 🧬

The video's engaging hook about hierarchical perception gets viewers curious, with informative content backed by scientific evidence on flatworms. There is room for improvement in its conclusiveness, but overall, it is well-presented and worth watching.
We're wired for hierarchical perception in ways that you can hardly possibly imagine. Even our ability to rank order a set of objects seems to be tightly linked to our ability to assess the relative status of people in our social milieus. The biochemistry is very, very similar. The reason we know that is because most of the drugs that are used on people are first tested on animals. Now, it's not often animals as primitive as lobsters, but it is plenty. So a lot of what we know about neurological structure, for example, is a consequence of studying the flatworm, which is much more primitive organism than the lobster. Continuity is the rule.