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The Tai Lopez Show

349: Is Evolutionary Psychology Wrong About Beauty? With Richard Prum

The Tai Lopez Show

Tai Lopez

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4.86.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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The evolutionary view of beauty has traditionally been that humans evolved a sense of what was beautiful based on practically. We’re often taught that things like the waist to hip ratio are a long-ingrained sign of fertility to men, which is why we find them attractive.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You look at some of these archetypes of what women like nowadays.

0:04.0

I think men, we have to learn that you got to be able to turn it on and turn it off a little bit.

0:08.4

You're macho.

0:13.6

Okay, welcome to today's podcast, radio episode, the Tai Lopez show.

0:19.6

I've got a special guest.

0:21.5

I ran into his book somewhere in my, all my book collecting the evolution of beauty,

0:28.4

Richard Prom and he was gracious enough to join us.

0:32.0

We're going to be talking about a very interesting subject.

0:35.0

So one of the most common questions I've tweeted about this and he always gets people

0:39.6

riled up is, should you date and marry for beauty, for looks or for personality?

0:46.8

And I've read your book one and a half times.

0:50.4

And so he, Richard has a very interesting take on this.

0:57.3

Now, Dr. David Bus has been on my show a few times and he is more of a classic evolutionary

1:05.5

psychologist and you have somewhat of a disruptive conversation.

1:08.6

So by the way, my grandma went to Yale.

1:10.8

So by the way, Richard is a professor at Yale.

1:16.5

You do what?

1:17.0

Is it the ornithology?

1:18.4

Yeah, I know.

1:19.0

I'm a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.

1:21.5

But really, I'm a ornithologist, which is a bird guy, bird guy.

1:25.9

And if you know anything about evolution, a lot of it,

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