Ep. 50 - Dr. Geoffrey Miller: An Expert's Guide to Sex & Dating

The James Altucher Show

James Altucher

Education, Business

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2014

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Relationships, sex, dating... no matter who you are, these are concepts that affect you at some point in your life.Do you ever seek advice about these topics? Browse the internet or self-help books?Today, we have a special treat for those that show interest in human sexuality.Dr. Geoffrey Miller, a world-famous evolutionary psychologist and co-host of the Mating Grounds podcast, joins The James Altucher Show to break down the dating hierarchy.Dr. Miller and Tucker Max co-host a podcast that provides listeners with actionable information and advice on evolutionary psychology, human sexuality, behavior genetics, and animal communication.It's a show about more than just sex... It's full of thought-provoking theories and will completely change the way you view our species. ------------What do YOU think of the show? Head to JamesAltucherShow.com/listeners and fill out a short survey that will help us better tailor the podcast to our audience!Are you interested in getting direct answers from James about your question on a podcast? Go to JamesAltucherShow.com/AskAltucher and send in your questions to be answered on the air!------------Visit Notepd.com to read our idea lists & sign up to create your own!My new book, Skip the Line, is out! Make sure you get a copy wherever books are sold!Join the You Should Run for President 2.0 Facebook Group, where we discuss why you should run for President.I write about all my podcasts! Check out the full post and learn what I learned at jamesaltuchershow.com------------Thank you so much for listening! If you like this episode, please rate, review, and subscribe to "The James Altucher Show" wherever you get your podcasts: Apple PodcastsiHeart RadioSpotifyFollow me on social media:YouTubeTwitterFacebookLinkedIn See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.
0:06.4	This is the James Alteter Show on the Standsbury Radio Network.
0:11.6	I'm here with Jeff Miller, author of The Mating Mind, how sexual choice shaped the evolution
0:27.7	of human nature.
0:28.7	And also Jeff, you also have a podcast you're doing with Tucker Maxx called The Mating
0:33.3	Grounds.
0:34.6	And Jeff, before I fully introduce you, I want to kind of try my own definition of who
0:43.1	you are and what you do and what evolutionary psychology is and why it's important.
0:49.4	So even though I haven't let you talk yet, let me try this and you correct me if I'm
0:55.3	wrong.
0:57.3	So, you're an evolutionary psychologist, which I understand to mean that many of the
1:03.8	choices we might make, most people think they have to do with, oh, you know, my boss treated
1:10.3	me bad last week or my wife or husband treated me bad last week.
1:14.1	So now I'm acting neurotic or crazy about it and I need help.
1:19.2	So most people think that their decisions are made off of events that happen in the
1:23.0	past week or psychologists might say it might be related to events that happened in your
1:27.8	childhood or in your first relationships or whatever.
1:31.2	But an evolutionary psychologist says that a good chunk of our decisions, particularly
1:35.4	ones relating to sexual or survival decisions and almost every decision is in some way related
1:42.6	to those two things.
1:43.9	And evolutionary psychologists says that these decisions are related to events that happened
1:48.5	millions of years ago and have evolved over time and that evolution has caused many of
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