SIO268: Defending Evolutionary Psychology with Lindsey Osterman
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Since Lindsey has started to appear on the show more often, we've heard from a few people who were under the impression that her field (evolutionary psychology) is "bunk" or is all unprovable just-so stories. As an expert, Lindsey takes us through where these objections come from and why they aren't accurate. Plus she takes us through some fascinating research!
Studies mentioned: Wertz & Wynn 2014 Infant avoidance of plants, Wertz 2019 Ho plants shape the mind
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to? Serious inquiries only. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only. This is episode 268. I'm Thomas and as you |
| 0:34.7 | can hear I have a cold. Sorry about that. And that is Lindsey Osterman. How are you doing, Lindsey? |
| 0:38.9 | Awesome. Really good. I don't have a cold. I'll rub it in. Yeah. Also, I'm awesome because |
| 0:46.4 | we had such a good time on the stream last night. That was a ton of fun. It was fun. Yeah. |
| 0:51.9 | Just to let everybody know. Yeah. Yeah. We were on my Twitch stream twitch.tv slash serious |
| 0:57.6 | pod. I was trying to beat battle toads, spoiler. I have not advanced past the ice level. |
| 1:03.8 | That's impossible. But anyway, during that time, we also took questions from listeners and |
| 1:08.0 | geez, we talked about a lot of stuff. Lindsey, that was fun. You got a good |
| 1:11.9 | kin selection versus group selection question. You broke that down for us a bit. And then |
| 1:18.6 | it eventually turned into a comedy shushan dad episode. So that also happened. But, but |
| 1:23.0 | anyway, next time make sure to come and hang out live and ask questions and interact. It |
| 1:28.2 | was so much fun. I can't wait till we do it again. Yeah, me too. All right. Well, having |
| 1:33.7 | said that, everyone go check it out twitch.tv slash serious pod. Oh, also I should let everybody |
| 1:38.8 | know that for opening arguments, we're doing a fundraiser. It's like the last, you know, |
| 1:42.7 | the last chance to swing things in Georgia. Yeah. It's this Sunday, December 20th from |
| 1:49.0 | four to seven Eastern or one to, you know, four, my time, which is exactly when the kids |
| 1:54.9 | are napping. So I'm just, are supposed to be napping. I'm letting you know that I'm |
| 1:57.7 | sacrificing a lot. We all make sacrifices. I'm sacrificing my kids nap time to do this |
| 2:02.8 | live stream. So come and join us for this live stream. It's going to be so much fun. |
| 2:06.3 | It's got, it's got, of course, opening arguments, getting Ross and Carrie on the live stream. |
| 2:13.6 | Muller, she wrote ice cream, social legal, eagle, Devon stone and, of course, the crew from |
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