Hello and this is a show for you if you're bored of

I'm Francis Foster.

I'm Constantine Kissom.

And this is a show for you if you look bored of watching people

having arguments on the internet over subjects

they know nothing about.

At trigonometry, we don't pretend to be the experts.

We ask the experts.

Our absolutely fantastic expert guest this week is an evolutionary psychologist and author, Jeffrey

Miller.

Welcome to Trigonometry.

Great to be here.

It's great to have you here.

The first question we always ask is just tell our audience who many of whom will know who you are a little bit about who you are how are you where you are what's been your journey through life so far

Well, I'm currently working as an evolutionary psychology professor, so I study human nature and I work at a little place called University of New Mexico, which is actually in America in New Mexico.

And I spent nine years in Britain, so I'm pretty familiar with British culture throughout the 90s.

And I had pretty straightforward academic life, undergrad, grad school postdocs

yada yada get tenure do research write books and I guess over the last few years

I've sort of tried to cultivate more of a public facing persona on Twitter and doing interviews

like this because I think there's a lot of stuff that

evolutionary psychologists in particular know about that the public

should also know about and that's relevant to a lot of current debates.

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