Ep. 673: Christopher Ryan Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

My guest today is Christopher Ryan, best known for co-authoring “Sex at Dawn.” The book deals with the evolution of monogamy in humans and human mating systems. In opposition to what the authors see as the “standard narrative” of human sexual evolution, they contend that having multiple sexual partners was common and accepted in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness. One of the more pivotal moments was when he was an undergraduate in college. He was able to skip his junior year of college and subsequently hitchhiked to Alaska. Before that journey to Alaska, he thought the world was a dangerous place. Once he got outside his bubble and met strangers, he learned how kind and generous people were. It shifted the way he thought about life and the world.

The topic is his book Sex at Dawn.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Monogamy
Hunter and gatherer society
Agricultural revolution
Culture of women sexuality
Sexual transmitted disease
War on masturbation
Social groups

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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0:00.0	This is Trend Following Radio, where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel.
0:24.0	Not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.1	I love doing this podcast.
0:36.6	So damn fun to be in school nonstop.
0:41.6	Oh, now of course, I run my life. I do my thing. I've got a little bit of an affection for this topic called trend following.
0:50.1	But I also love that other side of me that can reach out to an author, like my guest today, Christopher Ryan, author of Sex at Dawn, the prehistoric origins of modern sexuality.
1:04.6	Chris dives right into the topics that no one wants to think about or talk about in our modern age.
1:11.6	Our modern age of a 50% divorce rate.
1:15.2	And Chris goes back in time to look at the evolution of monogamy in human beings.
1:20.7	This is complicated stuff.
1:22.9	This is messy stuff.
1:25.0	I think we forget way too often that we are animals, primates, we're big
1:32.8	fucking monkeys. Let's get real. We do crazy stuff. And that crazy stuff goes all the way to
1:40.2	the bedroom, all the way to relationships to families, you name it. It's one big mess.
1:46.5	In Chris's book, he maps out a scenario where it was not once a mess.
1:52.4	And that about 10,000 years ago, us Homo sapiens, really went into a direction that perhaps we can really look at today and say, gosh, that was
2:05.3	the turning point. That was the inflection 10,000 years ago. Now, I'm sure some of you out there
2:12.0	that are professed traders only care if I have a trend following guest on this program.
2:19.9	Now listen, I understand that you might be some odd individual that's locked in your mom's basement and your tidy whitties.
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