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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Jan 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 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 Dec 20251h 37min
Love and Regret with Cari Goetz
What is love? What is regret? What are we missing in our understanding of mating? In this episode we talk to Cari Goetz (Cal State San Bernardino) about the (still largely unexplored) emotions surroun...
2 Dec 20251h 50min
