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In-depth interviews with leading academics on
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MY TOP SCIENCE/PHILOSOPHY BOOKS OF 2021 (not in any specific order).
1 - The Pleistocene Social Contract: Culture and Cooperation in Human Evolution, by Kim Sterelny
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MY FAVORITE NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2023
(no particular order, and with links to some interviews)
1 - A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going, by Michael Muthukrishna (
@mmuthukrishna
)
Interview:
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MY TOP NON-FICTION BOOKS OF 2022
(not in any specific order)
1 - The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality: Sex, Politics, and Ideology, by Jon Wisman.
Link:
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My top 10 science/philosophy books of 2020:
1 - The WEIRDest People in the World, by Joseph Henrich (
@JoHenrich
)
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IMPORTANT UPDATE ON MY MENTAL HEALTH AND THE DISSENTER
Please retweet this, so that other people can get this information.
@robsica
@WiringTheBrain
@VlastaSikimic
@lydia_moland
@Anthrofuentes
@YzarWehbe
@HistPhilosophy
@xriskology
@mattjlavender
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Guys, I did it! I interviewed one of the biggest intellectuals alive, Dr. Noam Chomsky, on some of his biggest career highlights.
The interview will be out on Nov. 28!
@EPoe187
@robsica
@BenWinegard
@bdcwilliamson
@Adam_Kessel
@craigjhealy1
@YzarWehbe
@Jesse_Livermore
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UPDATE
Hi, everyone. Just wanted to let you know that I'm feeling a bit better now, and I'm about to start recording more interviews this week.
I'll start a bit slower at the beginning, but then hopefully I'll pick up my usual pace.
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3 years and 3 months after I started the channel, I have just done my interview number 500.
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Guys, I interviewed Dr. Steven Pinker (
@sapinker
) yesterday!. I will release our interview next week, probably on Monday. Stay tuned!
@robsica
@YzarWehbe
@EPoe187
@ConnorsMMA
@Jesse_Livermore
@Adam_Kessel
@craigjhealy1
@BenWinegard
@ImHardcory
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I had the honor of interviewing the late great Dr. Frans de Waal twice. In our second interview, we talked about his terrific book, Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist.
#primatology
#Biology
#Science
Full interview:
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What would it take for someone to convince Dr. Robert Sapolsky that free will exists? Watch my latest interview with him, about his new book, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will.
#Science
#neuroscience
Full interview:
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Learn more about the 1950s/60s intellectual movement known as the "cognitive revolution" in my interview with Dr. Noam Chomsky.
#cognitivescience
#Science
#Philosophy
#neuroscience
#linguistics
#psychology
#Anthropology
Full interview:
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Here it is, my talk with Dr. Noam Chomsky (
@noamchomskyT
), on the Cognitive Revolution, Piaget, Foucault, and Evolutionary Psychology!
YouTube:
Anchor:
@robsica
@EPoe187
@YzarWehbe
@jimfrank
@Adam_Kessel
@craigjhealy1
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Hello, everyone. Thank you very much for all your kind tweets, messages and emails. I haven't read them all yet, but when I feel better I promise I will read and properly reply to them.
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Group selection, multilevel selection, and the extended evolutionary synthesis. Watch my first interview with Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Human Behavior, Evolution, Morality, and Free Will.
#biology
#evolutionarybiology
#evolution
#Science
Full interview:
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I need help.
I’ve been struggling recently. Due to the awful effects of inflation, a few of my dear patrons had to cancel or reduce their support. Over the course of November and December 2022, I lost almost a third of my monthly support on Patreon. 1/
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I never ever cried reading a non-fictional book.
I just finished "The Evolution of Life Worth Living" by Cas Soper, and I cried in the end.
There will be an interview on my channel about it in July.
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Just got this beauty in my mail. Double interview next week, with
@Moshe_Hoffman
and
@erezyoeli
. Released in April. It will be a 19-hour interview just so you know. And blurbs from
@nicholaraihani
,
@JoHenrich
,
@SteveStuWill
,
@amcafee
, and Rob Boyd - damn!
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New episode (882), with Dr. Luiz Pessoa (
@PessoaBrain
) about his fascinating book, The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together.
#neuroscience
#Psychology
#Science
YouTube:
Podcast:
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Do antidepressants work? Learn about it in my interview with Dr. Camilla Nord (
@camillalnord
) about her great book, The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health.
#mentalhealth
#psychiatry
#Science
Full interview:
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What is social cognition? Learn about it in my interview with Drs. Uta Frith (
@utafrith
) and Chris Frith (
@cdfrith
) about their fantastic book, "What Makes Us Social?"
#psychology
#Science
Full interview:
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3 - When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault, by David Buss (
@ProfDavidBuss
)
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I'm about to call for help.
Again, thank you very much for all, everyone!
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Yesterday, I had my first talk with the great Dr. Joseph Henrich (
@JoHenrich
) for my channel. We covered many topics related to cultural evolution and WEIRD psychology. It will be out next Friday. Don not miss it!
@robsica
@EPoe187
@ConnorsMMA
@Adam_Kessel
@YzarWehbe
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To learn more about the Mutual Mate Choice model of sexual selection, watch my interview with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams (
@SteveStuWill
).
#evolutionarypsychology
#Biology
#evolutionarybiology
#Science
#psychology
Full interview:
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@clairlemon
There's no objective truth, except for the objective truth that there's no objective truth.
No one is born heterosexual, but people can be born homosexual or bisexual.
All cultures are relativelly good, except for the Western one, which is objectively bad.
And so on.
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Cultures do not vary randomly. Watch my interview with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams (
@SteveStuWill
).
#evolution
#psychology
#Science
#evolutionarypsychology
#culture
#behavioralscience
Full interview:
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7 - A Story of Us: A New Look at Human Evolution, by Peter Richerson and Lesley Newson
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10 - The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning, by Paul Bloom (
@paulbloomatyale
)
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Here it is, my interview w/ Dr. Robert Sapolsky: Human Behavior, Evolution, Morality, and Free Will.
#biology
YouTube:
Anchor:
@robsica
@EPoe187
@YzarWehbe
@craigjhealy1
@Adam_Kessel
@ConnorsMMA
@bdcwilliamson
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2 - The Science of Can and Can't: A Physicist's Journey through the Land of Counterfactuals, by Chiara Marletto
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4 - Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence, by Alicia Juarrero
Interview:
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4 - The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World, by Nichola Raihani (
@nicholaraihani
)
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Watch my new release, my second talk with Dr. Kevin Mitchell (
@WiringTheBrain
), where we discuss (psychological) epigenetics in depth.
#Genetics
#psychology
#development
#behavior
#Evolution
#neuroscience
Full interview:
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Is "race" a scientific concept? What about "population"? Watch my interview with Dr. Christopher Stringer (
@ChrisStringer65
).
#anthropology
#Evolution
#race
#humanevolution
Full interview:
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How to best approach emotions, and their usefulness, from an evolutionary perspective. Watch my interview with Dr. Randolph Nesse (
@RandyNesse
).
#evolutionarypsychology
#Evolution
#biology
#Psychiatry
#mentalhealth
Full interview:
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Also, a few honorable mentions from 2022 that I missed last year:
The Entangled Brain: How Perception, Cognition, and Emotion Are Woven Together, by Luiz Pessoa (
@PessoaBrain
)
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8 - Perspectives in Male Psychology: An Introduction, by John Barry (
@MalePsychology
) and Louise Liddon (
@male_psychology
)
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My interview w/ Dr. Steven Pinker (
@sapinker
) is out! The Enlightenment, Cultural Evolution, and the Human Mind.
#psychology
YouTube:
Anchor:
@robsica
@EPoe187
@YzarWehbe
@Adam_Kessel
@craigjhealy1
@ConnorsMMA
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In my episode with Dr. Richard Wrangham, we talk about domestication and (human) self-domestication.
#Evolution
#Biology
#behavior
#humanevolution
Full interview:
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New episode (640), with Dr. Manvir Singh (
@mnvrsngh
): Going Beyond the Nomadic-Egalitarian Model of Hunter-Gatherers.
#Anthropology
#humanevolution
#Science
YouTube:
Anchor:
@robsica
@YzarWehbe
@mattjlavender
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Okay, guys, it seems that some sort of miracle happened, and
@TeamYouTube
finally transferred my channel back to me.
Could some of you please go to the channel and verify if the comments are enabled, if you see the link icons next to the cover image, 1/
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Episode 608, with Drs. Moshe Hoffman (
@Moshe_Hoffman
) & Erez Yoeli (
@erezyoeli
), on their new book, Hidden Games, and how
#gametheory
can explain irrational
#behavior
.
#Science
YouTube:
Anchor:
@robsica
@YzarWehbe
@mattjlavender
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The Dissenter now has a website!
Check it out.
In-depth interviews with leading academics on
#psychology
,
#philosophy
,
#anthropology
,
#neuroscience
,
#economics
,
#biology
, and more.
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14 - Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, by Edward Slingerland (
@slingerland20
)
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5 - T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us, by Carole Hooven (
@hoovlet
)
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A teaser for today's release, my second interview with Laith Al-Shawaf (
@LaithAlShawaf
). What are "just-so stories"?
#Psychology
#evolutionarypsychology
#evolution
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Coming up next week on
@TheDissenterYT
.
@robsica
@YzarWehbe
@vicdougherty
@EPoe187
@bdcwilliamson
@BenWinegard
@ImHardcory
@craigjhealy1
@Adam_Kessel
@ConnorsMMA
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12 - The Heirs of Avicenna: Philosophy in the Islamic East, 12-13th Centuries, by Peter Adamson (
@HistPhilosophy
) and Fedor Benevich
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2 - Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free Will, by Kevin Mitchell (
@WiringTheBrain
)
Interview:
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What causes behavior? How complicated is the study of behavior? Watch my second interview with Dr. Robert Sapolsky.
#behavior
#behavioralscience
#Science
#psychology
#neuroscience
Full interview:
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12 - How Children Invented Humanity: The Role of Development in Human Evolution, by David Bjorklund
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11 - A Myriad of Tongues: How Languages Reveal Differences in How We Think, by Caleb Everett
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What is WEIRD
#psychology
? Watch my first talk with Dr. Joseph Henrich (
@JoHenrich
).
#Anthropology
#evolutionarypsychology
#culture
#humanevolution
#evolution
#Science
Full interview:
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My interview with the legendary Dr. Robert Trivers (
@TriversRobert
). Here, we talk about parent-offspring conflict.
#evolution
#evolutionarybiology
#Biology
#Science
Full interview:
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What about modularity of mind? Watch my second talk with Dr. Kevin Mitchell (
@WiringTheBrain
).
#neuroscience
#Psychology
#genetics
#behavior
#brain
#evolution
#Science
Full interview:
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Why is the dual system approach to the mind wrong? Watch my second interview with Dr. Hugo Mercier (
@hugoreasoning
).
#Psychology
#Science
Full interview:
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New interview with Dr. David Buss (
@ProfDavidBuss
) coming out next Monday, about his new book (which I could not recommend enough), When Men Behave Badly: The Hidden Roots of Sexual Deception, Harassment, and Assault.
Stay tuned!
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In The WEIRDest People in the World, my favorite science book of last year, Dr. Joseph Henrich (
@JoHenrich
) talks about "The Catholic Church’s Marriage and Family Program". How did it affect the cultural evolution of WEIRD
#psychology
?
Full interview:
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@WiringTheBrain
The gut-brain link is the new psychological epigenetics, the new mirror neurons, the new neuroplasticity. It explains everything and anything.
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5 - Language vs. Reality: Why Language Is Good for Lawyers and Bad for Scientists, by Nick Enfield (
@njenfield
).
Link: .
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6 - Hidden Games: The Surprising Power of Game Theory to Explain Irrational Human Behavior, by Moshe Hoffman (
@Moshe_Hoffman
) and Erez Yoeli (
@erezyoeli
).
Link:
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Watch my interview with Dr. Robert Trivers to learn more about how he developed the theories of parental investment, reciprocal altruism, and parent-offspring conflict.
#Biology
#evolutionarybiology
#Science
Full interview:
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In episode 556, I talk with Dr. Dan Sperber about
#culture
, Cultural Attraction Theory, epistemic vigilance, and reason.
#Anthropology
#Science
#CognitiveScience
#psychology
Full interview:
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New episode (950), with Dr, Zachary Garfield (
@zhgarfield
). We talk about an evolutionary take on leadership, reputation, and conflict resolution.
#Anthropology
#evolutionarypsychology
#Science
#humanevolution
YouTube:
Podcast:
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New episode (839), my second interview with Dr. Michael Muthukrishna (
@mmuthukrishna
), about his book, A Theory of Everyone: The New Science of Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going.
#Science
YouTube:
Podcast:
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If there's no free will, is there still space for praise and blame? Watch my interview with Dr. Gregg Caruso (
@GreggDCaruso
).
#Philosophy
#ethics
Full interview:
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6 - Artificial Intimacy: Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers, by Rob Brooks (
@Brooks_Rob
)
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New episode (827), my third interview with Dr. Joseph Henrich (
@JoHenrich
): Cross-Cultural Research, Intelligence, Mating Systems, and Religion.
#psychology
#Anthropology
#culture
#evolution
#Science
YouTube:
Podcast:
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Ep. 296 w/ rising star in Evo Psych, Laith Al-Shawaf (
@LaithAlShawaf
): The Theoretical Bases Of Evolutionary Psychology, And Common Misconceptions.
YouTube:
Anchor:
@robsica
@EPoe187
@YzarWehbe
@Adam_Kessel
@ConnorsMMA
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@clairlemon
As I already said some time ago, a fourth-wave feminist once literally told me that a homeless white hetero cisgender male still was more privileged in our (first-world) society than Oprah Winfrey.
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Is mindreading/theory of mind a human universal? Watch my interview with Dr. Cecilia Heyes (
@CeliaHeyes
), about her great book, Cognitive Gadgets: The Cultural Evolution of Thinking.
#psychology
#Philosophy
#cognitivescience
#Science
Full interview:
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Dr. Chomsky turns 91 today.
A good opportunity to revisit my recent interview with him.
Congratulations, Dr.
@noamchomskyT
!
Here it is, my talk with Dr. Noam Chomsky (
@noamchomskyT
), on the Cognitive Revolution, Piaget, Foucault, and Evolutionary Psychology!
YouTube:
Anchor:
@robsica
@EPoe187
@YzarWehbe
@jimfrank
@Adam_Kessel
@craigjhealy1
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Hi, guys. Remember that Portuguese Bill on trans rights I did a video about more than a month ago? It got passed at the Parliament, but the President vetoed it, due to lack of scientific consensus!
@docamitay
@emily_zinos
@Muttmere1
@BroughPerkins
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New episode (734), with Dr. Helena Miton (
@HelenaMiton
): Cognitive Science, Cultural Transmission, and Tacit Knowledge.
#culture
#Science
#Anthropology
#evolution
YouTube:
Anchor:
@robsica
@YzarWehbe
@mattjlavender
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Where do the values of the Enlightenment come from? Watch my second interview with Dr. Joseph Henrich (
@JoHenrich
) about his phenomenal book, The WEIRDest People in the World.
#Anthropology
#humanevolution
#culture
#psychology
#Science
Full interview:
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In episode 223, I interview Dr. Pascal Boyer (
@PascalBoyerUSA
) about his great book, Minds Make Societies.
#Anthropology
#psychology
#CognitiveScience
#Science
Full interview:
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Watch my latest episode, with Dr. David Buss (
@ProfDavidBuss
). One of the topics is how to improve relationship satisfaction.
Full interview:
Also, take the time to watch our first talk:
New episode later today.
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15 - Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, by Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein
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What is the Environment of Evolutionary Adaptedness (EEA)? Watch my 3-hour talk with Dr. Leda Cosmides, if you want to learn about that, and many more in
#evolutionarypsychology
#evolution
#behavior
#brain
#psychology
#Science
Full interview:
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Amazing guest I have for you today!
Dr. Rebecca Goldstein (
@platobooktour
): The Philosophy of Science, and The Science of Philosophy.
Don't miss it!
@vancitytaraxo
@docamitay
@Muttmere1
@perhelgelarsen
@KarinLitzcke
@robsica
@Plato4Now
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In episode 150, I talk with Dr. Steve Stewart-Williams (
@SteveStuWill
), about his book, The Ape That Understood The Universe.
#Biology
#evolutionarybiology
#evolution
#evolutionarypsychology
#Science
Full interview:
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I have just done another hour and 1/2 with Dr. Kevin Mitchell (
@WiringTheBrain
), where we dissect psychological epigenetics.
Stay tuned!
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Thank you so much for being on the show, Dr. Pinker!
The Enlightenment, Cultural Evolution, and the Human Mind: New video interview by Ricardo Lopes of The Dissenter. via
@thedissenterYT
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Dr. Steven Pinker (
@sapinker
) on cultural evolution.
#evolutionarypsychology
#psychology
#behavior
#Evolution
#culture
Watch the full interview here:
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What is
#intelligence
? Watch my interview with the late Dr. James Flynn.
#IQ
#psychology
#Philosophy
#Science
Full interview:
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New episode 875, with Drs. Uta Frith (
@utafrith
) and Chris Frith (
@cdfrith
) about their great new book, "What Makes Us Social?".
#psychology
#CognitiveScience
#Science
YouTube:
Podcast:
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People talk about "genetic determinism". What about the idea of "epigenetic determinism"? Watch my second talk with Dr. Kevin Mitchell (
@WiringTheBrain
).
#genetics
#epigenetics
#neuroscience
#Psychology
#Science
Full interview:
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In my most recent episode, with Dr. John Barry (
@MalePsychology
), we talk about common male issues, like suicide, substance abuse, and homelessness.
#psychology
#Science
#masculinity
Full interview:
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Is mindreading universal? Watch my interview with Dr. Cecilia Heyes (
@CeliaHeyes
), focusing on her book, Cognitive Gadgets.
#psychology
#development
#Philosophy
Full interview:
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In episode 689, my second interview with Dr. Michael Tomasello, we talk about his latest book, The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans.
#Biology
#psychology
#evolution
#evolutionarybiology
#Science
1
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What is a "just-so story"? Watch my second talk with the great
@LaithAlShawaf
.
#evolutionarypsychology
#Science
#humanevolution
Full interview:
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Watch my interview with Dr. Nichola Raihani (
@nicholaraihani
), on her recent book, The Social Instinct.
#evolution
#Biology
#humanevolution
#evolutionarybiology
#Science
Full interview:
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