Oh hey, what's up? It's your brain who refuses to do anything unless there's a water balloon's worth of dopamine dumped on it.

Alley Ward back with the Harriest Sexy Episode of Oligies.

What does that mean? Well, trickology was about hair.

Sexyology was about sex, but this, this one is the Harriest Sexy Episode because it's about

apes getting it on. And hey, guess what? We're also apes. Oh yes. But hey, I have an idea.

What if we thanks the folks at patreon.com such allergies for tossing 25 cents an episode of us keeping this podcast possible?

And also told you that if you need holiday gifts for fellow oligites, there is some up at oligiesmerge.com.

Also, if you rate and subscribe this show, it keeps allergies up in the charts and also reviewing makes my day.

What if I told you all that? Well, I already did. Meggie Muger said it's the episodes I'm least excited about that become my favorites.

Meggie is a nurse. Thank you for literally saving lives. Well, I talk about crutches.

Okay, as your deer, wizard, internet grandfather, I read every single review they bring tears to my milky eyes.

So thank you for doing that. And now let's get etymological on this. Okay, biological anthropology.

It comes from the study of the life of people. And really it means the biological and behavioral aspects of human beings,

of their extinct ancestors and related non-human primates. So think of this as how to sex, ape style.

So thisologist and I met via the internet and much to our mutual like, we had already covered primatology way early in episode two,

which is a great episode, by the way. But this scientist this week did her PhD dissertation on ovarian function and reproductive behaviors across the female orangutan lifestyle.

And has been a lecturer at Boston University. She's been a Harvard University fellow, a Ted Speaker whose talk on gene mutations has at present 1.6 million views.

She's a current lecturer at Tufts and is also a biological anthropologist. Boom. So we recorded this month ago back when the lockdown first started actually.

But I wanted to give it some space from the neuroendocrinology episode about sex and gender. That was up in June.

So I've been saving this as kind of a post companion piece to that kind of like a special piece of Halloween candy you find in a pocket.

And it's all about primates getting it on. It's literally the thing that drives us every moment of every day.

So just go look in the mirror and whisper you sexy ape and then get ready to hear about mating behaviors, ovaries, sperm counts, exotic dancers, biological clocks, presidential roosters, cramps, the Pope, male birth control, hormones and moods,

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