Hello and

I'm Francis Foster I'm Constanton Kissing.

And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant guest today is a former evolutionary biologist who is now the managing editor

at Quilett and we'll get to talking about why he's the former evolution

biologist Colin Wright welcome to trigonometry.

Hey thanks for having me on I appreciate it. It's great to have you on man listen I

obviously put a little bit of a teaser in there in the introduction about why you no longer

any relational biologist, so why don't you just give everybody a little overview of your whole sort of life,

how are you, where you are, what has been your journey through life to the point where you sit here talking to these two very problematic people.

My whole life, so it's a lot.

Let's see, I guess a good place to start would be just like immediately after high school

and how I started going down the evolutionary biology route.

So I didn't, I was a pretty terrible student in high school, barely graduated, and then I went to community

colleges, a business major, where I started basically getting Fs and all my classes and failed

and I flunked out of community college

Got put on academic probation and they they booted me from the college. So I worked in like

record stores and restaurants for a while and then I became a real estate agent for well I just started to be a real estate agent in 2008 and that's when the market crashed and so

great timing. Being a real estate agent wasn't a really great time, especially someone, I think I was 21 or 22 at the time.

So luckily at the time I had also been sort of involved in the whole new atheist movement that was in the late 2000s

early 2010s and I was really involved in sort of arguing against God and stuff like that and a lot of the arguments kind of would go back to evolution versus creationism and so I found myself just sort of going to these evolutionary biology textbooks all the time,

web resources to read about why these arguments

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