Selection with Paul Smaldino
Intentions be damned! Whats matter is selection! In this episode, Paul Smaldino (UC Merced) takes us on a tour of his work on social signals, social identities, the perverse incentives of science, the...
27 Tammi 2h 4min
Consciousness with Michael Graziano
Consciousness: is it really that hard of a problem? In this episode, we talk to our favorite mechanistically-minded (and possibly clearest) thinker about consciousness we've had the pleasure to stumbl...
20 Tammi 2h 9min
Peace with Luke Glowacki
The evolution of war has occupied science. But what about the evolution of peace? In this episode, we talk to Luke Glowacki about his framing of peace as requiring just as much, if not more, explanati...
13 Tammi 1h 53min
Free Will with David Pietraszewski
Free will: Do we really have it? And what is it, exactly? In this episode, co-host David Pietraszewski takes the role of guest and explains his recent evolutionary, adaptationist approach to the prob...
6 Tammi 2h 2min
Moralizing Self-Control with Léo Fitouchi
Why do we care about delaying gratification? Why do we judge others for moral failings that have no apparent consequences on us? In this episode, we talk to Lêo Fitouchi (IAST Toulouse) about all thin...
30 Joulu 20251h 50min
Evolutionary Social Sciences with Dan Nettle
Poverty? Universal basic income? Do we really crave sugar because of evolutionary mismatch? How do you train for an 800meter and a 100K running race? We cover this and much more with Dan Nettle (Jean ...
23 Joulu 20251h 44min
Culture, Killing, and PTSD with Sarah Mathew
How do evolutionary behavioral scientists think about the interplay between our psychology and culture? What causes some cultural norms to persist and spread? Do non-Western combatants in war have som...
16 Joulu 20252h 1min
Reasoning and Epistemic Vigilance with Hugo Mercier
Is the evolved mind prone to believing misinformation? Are people gullible? What is reasoning, anyway? And what is it for? In this episode, we talk all things reasoning with Hugo Mercier (Institute Je...
9 Joulu 20251h 37min
