Evolutionarily Speaking w/ Herman Pontzer

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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How does our evolutionary history shape our current world? What's up with sexy jawlines? Will being quarantined while staring at computer screens all day change how humans look? In this episode Shane talks with returned guest Herman Pontzer, who is a Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. You can learn more about Pontzer's work at https://evolutionaryanthropology.duke.edu/people/herman-pontzer Thank you for watching and being an inquisitive being. 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐖𝐞 𝐀𝐫𝐞: Stand-up comedian, adventurer and science enthusiast Shane Mauss has been interviewing scientists each week since 2014. Originally from La Crosse, Wisconsin this former factory worker skipped college to become a comedian. His stand up has been on Comedy Central, Conan, Kimmel, Showtime, and Epix https://bit.ly/shaneTV . In the age of podcasting, more people might be familiar with him as a guest on Trussell, Holmes, Kreischer, Vaughn, Maron, or Rogan https://bit.ly/shaneguest. Compelled to talk about bigger ideas, he now travels to universities around the world (when there isn't a pandemic) to interview researchers on a journey to learn what makes us who we are...as well as a bunch of other random stuff you never imagined you would care about. Favorite topics include: psychology, biology, evolution, cognitive biases, behavioral economics, mating, animal behavior, neuroscience, entheogens and consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the show everybody. This one was recorded April 28th. Fantastic episode,
0:05.2	returned guest Hermann Ponser, which if you go back to the before times and check
0:09.3	out his episode from a year ago, May 20, May 9th, 2019.
0:15.3	That's a fantastic episode as well.
0:18.6	But the reason why this one took months to get out
0:22.4	is because I recorded a ton early on in quarantine.
0:26.0	I was super excited to get new video episodes out and all of the editing and improving of video quality and
0:36.3	everything else to get this up to the standard that I want so that it doesn't just look like another Zoom call or something for you guys
0:46.8	has taken a while and we've been including things like brand new animation of the theme song. So cool animator Megan Armstrong
0:58.9	Made this for the show continuing to make little tweaks and improvements and
1:06.2	learn so much all the time like the highlights bite size science that are
1:11.9	brand new since quarantine too.
1:14.0	At the end of the show, I'm going to tell you a bunch of cool things that I got lined up going forward
1:20.8	in how there's going to be a lot more viewers coming real soon as we're just
1:27.2	about to start almost have things how we want them and just about to start making a big push to
1:36.7	spread the word about the show. So thanks you here we are hipsters for on the Ground Floor, and I hope you enjoy today's episode.
1:45.8	Here we are.
1:48.7	Hello everybody and welcome to the Here We Are podcast.
1:51.6	I'm having a return guest Hermann Ponser is joining me.
1:55.7	He is one of my favorite guests that I've had on both the podcast and stand-up science, really one of the most fantastic guests on both.
2:09.6	So thanks for coming back and doing this remote podcast.
2:14.3	Thanks for the invitation.
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