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The bomb-damaged wasteland of Stepney, East London, UK, in 1946. Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images The bomb-damaged wasteland of Stepney, East London, UK, in 1946. Photo by Charles Hewitt/Picture Post/Getty Images is a PhD student in evolutionary anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He studies culture-cognition coevolution and writes the Substack Unpublishable Papers. is a PhD student in evolutionary anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He studies culture-cognition coevolution and writes the Substack Unpublishable Papers. Listen to this article 14 minute listen Around 1950, when the developmental psychologist Peter Gray was five years old, his family moved to a new town. He didn’t know any of the kids in the neighbourhood, so his mother told him to go door to door and ask if any children lived in each house. He took her advice and, within a few minutes, had found a girl named Ruby Lou, who soon taught him how to ride a bicycle and climb t

Around 1950, when the developmental psychologist Peter Gray was five years old, his family moved to a new town. He didn’t know any of the kids in the neighbourhood, so his mother told him to go door to door and ask if any children lived in each house. He took her advice and, within a few minutes, had found a girl named Ruby Lou, who soon taught him how to ride a bicycle and climb trees. ‘During that first summer,’ Gray recalls in his book Free to Learn (2013), ‘Ruby Lou and I played together almost every day, often all day.’ Their adventures took them all across town, often far from the…

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