Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Luminary. This week I spoke with Heather,

Haying and Brett Weinstein. Heather is an evolutionary biologist and Brett served as a professor of biology

at Evergreen State College. They host a dark horse podcast and their latest book,

A Hunter Gavra's Guide to the 21st Century Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life is out now.

Now that Under the Skin is on Apple Podcast, please leave a review there. It helps us and we read them out sometimes.

This bit of podcast that we chose, by the way, this is all about like evolution.

It's a subject I'm pretty interested in. I don't mean just generally evolution.

I mean the way that we evolved and how it may be at odds with the way that we live now.

That's I guess the raised in debture of the book. It's a pretty good conversation.

I know of course you might have heard of Brett because of some more controversial conversations

that he has in the online space. This one we focus on, his book that he wrote with Heather.

In this bit of it, what do we took about Jen? Myths and what constitutes a myth and if capitalism is a myth,

could you say capitalism is a myth of our culture and they say no it's not been around long enough.

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In this part we talk about as Jen and just told you that stuff.

Trying to achieve a quality with the annihilation of category is not successful.

That's exactly right. We're in this era where it turns out we were never the past.

What's beneath the surface of people with my ideas that define our time, the history we're told?

Welcome to Russell Brand. Everything you're saying about myth suggests that it is an important

myth as story, myth as guide, myth as template. It suggests that it's an important component and

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