81 - Geoffrey Miller
Tangentially Speaking with Christopher Ryan
Chris Ryan
4.8 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2014
⏱️ 104 minutes
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Summary
One of the leading thinkers in the emerging field of Evolutionary Psychology, Miller has written two well-received books: one on how sexual selection favors the evolution of non-physical traits like creativity, generosity, and morality (The Mating Mind), and another on how advertisers are co-opting our innate, evolved desire to be "cool" in order to attract mates (Spent). Currently an Associate Professor at University of New Mexico, he's also currently collaborating with controversial author, Tucker Max (a previous guest) on Mating Grounds, a multi-media project to help young men get a better handle on dealing with women.
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| 0:00.0 | Zero audio. |
| 0:04.1 | Hey everybody, welcome to another edition. |
| 0:06.6 | Yet another edition of this crazy thing we call a podcast, tangentially speaking. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Christopher Ryan, your host. |
| 0:16.2 | It's been an interesting week for me. |
| 0:19.1 | On the podcast front, I spent last night with Dennis McKenna, not in a biblical sense. |
| 0:26.3 | We were in bed together, anything, but we were, he did an event here in Portland and then |
| 0:32.5 | we went to a Kava bar afterwards, which maybe why I'm feeling sort of jittery and strange |
| 0:37.8 | today. |
| 0:39.3 | Or maybe just because it's Sunday, the Lord's Day. |
| 0:44.1 | Anyway, hi, I'm with Dennis McKenna last night, the day before and we recorded a long |
| 0:49.9 | podcast, Dennis and Andrew and I, little three-way conversation there that I think you'll |
| 0:57.6 | find very interesting. |
| 0:58.8 | It's not the podcast you're about to listen to, but it's in the pipeline. |
| 1:03.4 | And before Dennis, I sat down with Sierra Lynch, who is a humanly atrix, who appeared very |
| 1:14.0 | briefly in last week's episode. |
| 1:16.4 | She sort of came in at the end and we chatted for about 10 minutes and she agreed to a follow-up |
| 1:24.0 | conversation. |
| 1:25.0 | So she and I spoke for over an hour. |
| 1:27.8 | I don't know exactly how long it was, but it was fascinating. |
| 1:32.1 | She's a very smart, I don't know, she's enigmatic, honestly. |
| 1:42.3 | You'll understand what I mean when you listen to that one. |
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