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The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

My Chat with Dr. Menno Schilthuizen -Urban Ecology & the Evolution of Genitalia (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_681)

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad

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Society & Culture, Education, Science

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🗓️ 5 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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#evolution #evolutionarypsychology #ecology #science #citizenscience #sex #genitalia #birds #research #mating #orgasm Menno's website: https://www.schilthuizen.com _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted on June 5, 2024 on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1693: https://youtu.be/jQTLOJu_gYA _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense.  _______________________________________

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0:00.0

Hi everybody this is God Sad for the sad truth today I have a back-to-back

0:06.3

evolutionist and biologists last week I had Colin Wright who studies who studied

0:11.6

wasps and spiders today Today I've got meno, let me pronounce the name probably

0:16.7

skilled house, but please pronounce it the Dutch way. It was almost perfect. The Dutch way would be skilled housing there you go we

0:26.6

can also talk about how much I loved Johann Croix growing up in 1974 in the World Cup. We can talk about that if you'd like later.

0:36.0

But I first want to introduce you, tell people how I discovered you. I discovered you by the way.

0:43.2

I'm still reading it.

0:44.2

You see, there's still a mark here.

0:45.5

I'm still going through it.

0:47.2

It's Darwin comes to town,

0:49.6

how the urban jungle drives evolution,

0:52.1

phenomenal book, love it.

0:54.3

But some of your earlier books, Frogs, Flies,

0:58.1

and then Billions, 2008, The Loom of Life 2008, Nature's Nether Regions, we want to talk about that, the evolution of genitalia.

1:08.4

And then as I said, Darwin comes to town and you've got an upcoming book, Urban Naturalist in 2025.

1:14.8

Anything else we need to cover, Menno, before we get going?

1:17.2

That is, I think that's a good summary, but writing I'm also an expedition leader so I also take people into the field to show them the things that I write about so via tax on expeditions which is our scientific travel agency.

1:34.4

If you want to meet the stuff I'm writing about up close,

1:37.7

you can have a look there.

1:39.0

And the people who are signing up for those field expeditions. They're not necessarily scientists. They're just

1:46.0

lay people who are interested in science. Exactly, science or nature or knowledge in general.

1:52.1

Yeah, so we just came back from Tuscany where we, every year we do an expedition around the medieval castle.

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