#192 - Professor Adam Hart - When Human Evolution Collides With The Modern World
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Adam Hart is a scientist, author & presenter.
Our species has been around for far longer than the modern world. This is leading to some imbalances between our evolutionary heritage and the environment we now find ourselves in.
Expect to learn how obesity might be an evolutionary adaptation gone awry, why fight or flight happens in the workplace, the misalignment of technology with our brains, the evolutionary basis for violence and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, welcome back. My guest today is Professor Adam Hart and we are talking about how |
| 0:05.6 | unfit for purpose the human species is for the world that we find ourselves in now. |
| 0:11.8 | You see, our species has been around for far longer than the modern world and this leads to |
| 0:17.2 | imbalances between our evolutionary heritage and the environment that we find ourselves in. |
| 0:22.4 | So today, expect to learn how obesity might be an evolutionary adaptation gonna rye, |
| 0:27.6 | how the flight and fight happens in the workplace, the misalignment of technology with our brains, |
| 0:33.2 | the evolutionary basis for violence and much more. Adam is a presenter for BBC as well so he's |
| 0:40.1 | delivery today, he's just so cool, really, really impressed by him and the book is really fun. |
| 0:46.0 | So if you're into this evolutionary biology stuff, I would very much suggest that you go and pick it |
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