Episode #1201
William von Hippel
Books mentioned
The Social Leap
Mentioned by William von Hippel · at 00:00:00
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Sex at Dawn
Mentioned by William von Hippel · at 00:22:49
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Catching Fire
Mentioned by William von Hippel · at 00:42:12
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Blueprint
Mentioned by William von Hippel · at 01:21:35
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The Better Angels of Our Nature
Mentioned by Joe Rogan (host) · at 02:04:17
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Enlightenment Now
Mentioned by William von Hippel · at 02:08:08
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William von Hippel, a psychology professor at the University of Queensland, discusses how cooperation, bipedalism, cooking, tools, social cognition, and other adaptations may have shaped human evolution. The episode also examines mating and jealousy, behavioral genetics, psychedelics, agriculture, diet, deception, technology, violence, and the ethical implications of genetic engineering.
What they talked about
- The social leap: how humans became human
- Leaving the rainforest for the savanna
- Evolution of throwing and hunting
- Mating systems and testicle size
- Pair bonding vs polyamory in primates
- Human cooperation and tribal warfare
- Theory of mind and lying in children
- Epigenetics and gene-environment interaction
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