Evolutionary Psychology, Sexuality, and (Geoffrey Miller Interview)

The Rubin Report

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News Commentary, News, Politics

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🗓️ 11 January 2019

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Geoffrey Miller (evolutionary psychologist) joins Dave to discuss his field of evolutionary psychology, the future of long term relationships, how trans issues fit into evolutionary psychology, untouchable topics on college campuses for professors, evolutionary aesthetics, the politicization of mate selection, why science can’t explain homosexuality, effective altruism, and more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Join me today as an evolutionary psychologist, an author, an associate professor at the University
0:10.4	of New Mexico.
0:11.6	Jeffrey Miller, welcome to the Ruben Report.
0:13.6	Hey Dave, great to be here.
0:15.2	Good to be with you, my friend.
0:18.0	You know, I realize I've had evolutionary biologists on the show.
0:22.0	I've had Brett Weinstein and Richard Dawkins.
0:24.6	I've had psychologists on the show, Jordan Peterson.
0:27.7	I've never had an evolutionary psychologist.
0:30.8	Never.
0:31.8	No, for most very many of us.
0:33.6	How many of you are there?
0:35.4	We're almost extinct.
0:37.6	The big international conference we get maybe 300 people versus like a big neuroscience
0:42.6	conference will be 30,000.
0:44.4	That's got to be a tough crowd.
0:46.6	It's a tough crowd.
0:48.1	We get a lot of slack from all directions, but I wouldn't want to do anything else.
0:54.4	It's an awesome field.
0:57.7	I can't imagine anything more fun than studying human nature for living.
1:01.6	Yeah.
1:02.6	And you're studying and have written about so many incredible topics.
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