#161 - Rob Henderson - Evolution & The Modern Dating Market

Modern Wisdom

Chris Williamson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Rob Henderson is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and a US Air Force Veteran.

The modern dating market is hard to navigate, our genetic preferences are outdated by 100,000 years, divorces are rising and I'm very single. Please help, Rob.

Expect to learn how Tinder has messed everything up, why 20% of men have sex with 80% of women, why lifting weights is attractive, whether evolution justifies gold diggers, whether men can judge a man's attractiveness more accurately than women, why the withdrawal method is a suboptimal contraceptive strategy and much more.

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0:00.0	Oh, yes, hello friends, welcome back.
0:03.0	My guest today is Rob Henderson.
0:05.3	He is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge
0:08.6	and a US Air Force veteran.
0:10.7	But we're not talking about the Air Force today.
0:12.3	We are talking about dating, specifically
0:16.1	how evolution relates to dating,
0:18.5	how our preferences, why we like what we like,
0:22.6	are shaping our behaviors in the modern world.
0:25.4	Now, if this sounds to you like the most dry boring conversation
0:28.8	you can think of, you're wrong.
0:31.0	This is one of the most interesting
0:33.9	and exciting new areas that I've delved into
0:38.2	in a very long time.
0:39.8	I absolutely adore evolutionary psychology.
0:42.7	So get used to it.
0:44.3	So you're going to be hearing a lot more.
0:45.5	Today we talk about how Tinder has ruined the dating market.
0:49.7	Why 20% of men are having sex with 80% of women.
0:54.0	Why women are struggling to find appropriate mates
0:57.7	as the men going to college or university declines.
1:01.4	Why weightlifting is embedded evolutionarily
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