My Chat with Evolutionary Biologist Dr. Jerry Coyne (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_316)

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🗓️ 5 November 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Topics tackled include the pros and cons of dogs versus cats, various issues dealing with evolution including evolutionary psychology and evolutionary genetics, the sociobiology war at Harvard University in the late 1970s (E. O. Wilson versus Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould), atheism, the schism between science and religion, freedom of speech, academic freedom, forbidden knowledge, political correctness on campuses, virtue signalling, and criticism of Islam. _______________________________________ Jerry's blog Why Evolution is True: https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com Jerry's Twitter account: @Evolutionistrue Jerry's books on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Jerry-A.-Coyne/e/B001JSCB22 _______________________________________ This chat was posted originally on Ora.tv back in 2016 and on my YouTube channel on April 9, 2016 as THE SAAD TRUTH_156: https://youtu.be/LGzvinJki_k _______________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (paperback edition) was released on October 5, 2021. Order your copy now. https://www.amazon.com/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= https://www.amazon.ca/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X https://www.amazon.co.uk/Parasitic-Mind-Infectious-Killing-Common/dp/162157959X _______________________________________ 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	All right, guys, I've got a hero, a scientific hero of mine, Jerry Coyne.
0:08.0	Let me first introduce him and then I'll give, I'll see the way for him to speak. He's Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago,
0:15.3	Department of Ecology and Evolution. Well over 20,000 citations on Google Scholar.
0:20.9	He's got a very popular blog, why evolution is True. You should definitely check it out.
0:25.0	And then he's got three books, two of which we'll probably talk about today, Speciation, Why Evolution
0:30.4	is True, and Faith versus fact why science and religion are incompatible.
0:36.0	How you doing Jerry?
0:37.0	It's so nice to finally sit down together.
0:40.0	I know that you were in Montreal recently we didn't get a chance to meet but at least we we e meet
0:44.9	So there you go I thought we would probably start with
0:49.5	Maybe our only point of contention because I think we're probably going to agree on most things
0:54.7	not that that means that it won't be a fun conversation.
0:57.6	Apparently you are a committed cat person while I am a committed dog person.
1:03.7	What I'd like to do is maybe try to tease out some of these issues
1:07.1	by first telling you about a study that came out a few years ago
1:10.3	on personality differences between dogs and cats and then ask you to weigh in on the topic.
1:16.0	So this comes from a paper by Goslin, Sandy and Potter and their abstract.
1:21.0	They say that dog people are higher on extra version
1:25.7	agreeableness and conscientiousness but lower on neuroticism and openness.
1:31.8	What are your thoughts on that study?
1:33.0	Well, you know, I haven't read it.
1:35.0	I'm dubious of a lot of psychological studies.
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