Modern Humans w/David and Douglas Kenrick

Here We Are

Shane Mauss

Science

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today I'm speaking with David and Douglas Kenrick about their new book "Solving Modern Problems With a Stone-Age Brain: Human Evolution and the Seven Fundamental Motives".

Douglas Kenrick is a professor of psychology at Arizona State University. His research and writing integrate three scientific syntheses of the last few decades: evolutionary psychology, cognitive science, and dynamical systems theory. He is the author of over 170 scientific articles, books, and book chapters, the majority applying evolutionary ideas to human cognition and behavior.

David Lundberg-Kenrick is the Media Outreach Program Manager at Arizona State University. He creates multimedia supplements for psychology textbooks, produced and edited videos for use in psychology experiments, and worked on documentaries about evolutionary psychology, including the BBC’s “The Science of Seduction” and his current project “The Caveman Goes to Hollywood.”

Thank you for watching and being an inquisitive being.

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0:00.0	A lot of people think about evolutionary psych as it's about sex and aggression. I mentioned that before
0:04.2	You know it turns out that evolution is about you know all of human nature and humans are group living
0:10.0	Organisms that get along with others a lot of young people think oh if I'm into evolutionary psych
0:14.9	I should be like gang is con. I should have a lot of mates
0:17.2	I should not care who I hurt along the way when you're a good person and other people think that you have their
0:24.1	Interested heart they like you you know and so in some sense the most selfish thing you can do ironically is to be on
0:32.0	Selfish are we yes, where are we here? Why are we here not entirely clear? We are misfits gross into existence by random chance
0:43.7	With no hints at all as to how we're supposed to make sense of it all. It's immensely bizarre
0:50.4	Here we are
0:53.2	Hello everybody and welcome to the here we are podcast with me today
0:58.5	I have two guests one of them are returning guests you are actually in I think the first year of the podcast seven years ago
1:08.3	I
1:09.5	Author of the book rational animal back and his first appearance we talked about that today
1:15.0	We're going to be talking about solving modern problems with a stone age brain with David London
1:22.4	Berg Kenrick and Doug Kenrick. Thank you guys so much for for joining me
1:29.4	Good to be with you. Thanks for having us. It's you prefer a dog or dog less now
1:33.4	We've been hanging out like dog we can you like dog? Okay, and so yeah, we now have an informal unless you're talking about my
1:42.7	Research and then I like it to be a dog's list sounds more distinguished very authoritative
1:47.3	Yeah, yeah
1:49.6	All right, well, I I've actually I've actually referenced your
1:54.5	Your book the rational animal
1:58.8	Few times on the show since I've had you on I in my other show mind under matter that I started a year and a half ago
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