In the past it was acceptable for men to have as many partners as they liked and to be choosy about their choice of partner while women had to remain a virgin and accept what she got. Nowadays, it seems the reverse is true. Instead of evening out behavioural expectations have we just swapped round the male/female expectations without addressing the underlying issues with the behaviours?
Why is it that, seemingly all at once, so many people are questioning their gender? Why has gender dysphoria become so prevalent? What changed to bring this about? How did schools become involved in it?
What is the role of the psychopath in society? If one was to take a Darwinian viewpoint, surely their behavior is so damaging that natural selection would have eliminated them from the gene pool. But they're everywhere.
How do you see that society would be fundamentally altered if the psychopaths amongst us were no longer to exist?
What do you make of research around the pill disrupting female mate selection processes (i.e the sweaty t shirt study)? Do you agree this is the case? What other society wide interventions have had potentially unforeseen consequences on mating/pairing habits?
What's your view on Epigenetics or how much child raising and the environment can help or hinder a child's development?
For example, early control of the infant can help with the temperament of discipline and hard work for the child in later life?
Or having intermittent stress, where a child can be exposed to stresses and challenges and have periods of rest to help with their development on resistance. Compared to a child being exposed to chronic stress where there is no recovery, that the person feels stressed and helpless for the rest of their lives.
Also does easy access to an abundant of food and sex actually cause the society to stagnate and then decline?
if there was a nuclear war that wiped out 98 percent of the population AND all the material modern infastructure, is there enough "instinctual biology" or whatever you would call it for humanity to survive, and would it take another 2000 years to reinvent televison/cars and mobile phones etc?
Working myself in mental health. So many of the people I see with depression and anxiety can be looked at through a evolutionary lens. People with no role, nothing to protect and provide for, or nurture and care for, disconnected from wider communities and in person contact, disconnected from nature, or simply in constant fight or flight from the onslaught of modern life, deadlines and news cycles.
What can we do as a society, and as individuals, to help our caveman brains be more healthy.
Has the feminisation of society created a world in which young men are discouraged from seeking out sexual partners? If so, can the damage be undone while retaining most of the positive aspects of feminism?
David I'm sure many who will watch this podcast are a little older, how does your research expand-out for those who can now live longer, stay fitter, and have drugs and surgeries that can prolong and "induce" sex drives and libido. What is the "evolution" in older peoples psychology re sex, in the context of such possibilities in western lifestyles?
Is it still true that most social scientists ignore or even deny the primacy evolutionary psychology in explaining so much of behavior? If so how do they reconcile their outspoken scorn for religious denials of evolution?
Thanks. :) Isn't it fracking crazy!?! I was real close to changing my question to this "When the social scientists deny evolutionary psychology, what is the strongest and best argument in circulation? What case do they make that is at least worthy of steel-manning?"
There is growing refocus in last few months on masculinity and young men and boys, especially around social media and influencers. Focusing a lot on 'Incels' and people like Andrew Tate.
(See netflix show Adolescence and Southgate's recent speech)
However, these critics often seem to misdiagnose this problem, or miss bits of of the formulation.
What do you think originally caused the vacuum that has lead to things like Incels' and Andrew Tate?
And, what problems might a resurgence over targeting and villainising of young men cause?
It's not controversial to say that genetically inherited traits lead to stronger and faster athletes. Is it more controversial to say the same for more intelligent people, and if so why?
I'm being purposefully reductionist...but...Was it actually women who created 'patriarchy' and 'toxic masculinity' through mate selection, at least in part or indirectly?
IE. By choosing the best protector/provider for millennia, did they inadvertently ingrain hypercompetitiveness, aggressiveness, strength, and emotional fortitude and drive for status into men, as those men would be the best mates??
In the past it was acceptable for men to have as many partners as they liked and to be choosy about their choice of partner while women had to remain a virgin and accept what she got. Nowadays, it seems the reverse is true. Instead of evening out behavioural expectations have we just swapped round the male/female expectations without addressing the underlying issues with the behaviours?
Is there a non-violent way to solve the growing political divide between men and women?
Why is it that, seemingly all at once, so many people are questioning their gender? Why has gender dysphoria become so prevalent? What changed to bring this about? How did schools become involved in it?
What is the role of the psychopath in society? If one was to take a Darwinian viewpoint, surely their behavior is so damaging that natural selection would have eliminated them from the gene pool. But they're everywhere.
How do you see that society would be fundamentally altered if the psychopaths amongst us were no longer to exist?
What do you make of research around the pill disrupting female mate selection processes (i.e the sweaty t shirt study)? Do you agree this is the case? What other society wide interventions have had potentially unforeseen consequences on mating/pairing habits?
What's your view on Epigenetics or how much child raising and the environment can help or hinder a child's development?
For example, early control of the infant can help with the temperament of discipline and hard work for the child in later life?
Or having intermittent stress, where a child can be exposed to stresses and challenges and have periods of rest to help with their development on resistance. Compared to a child being exposed to chronic stress where there is no recovery, that the person feels stressed and helpless for the rest of their lives.
Also does easy access to an abundant of food and sex actually cause the society to stagnate and then decline?
if there was a nuclear war that wiped out 98 percent of the population AND all the material modern infastructure, is there enough "instinctual biology" or whatever you would call it for humanity to survive, and would it take another 2000 years to reinvent televison/cars and mobile phones etc?
Working myself in mental health. So many of the people I see with depression and anxiety can be looked at through a evolutionary lens. People with no role, nothing to protect and provide for, or nurture and care for, disconnected from wider communities and in person contact, disconnected from nature, or simply in constant fight or flight from the onslaught of modern life, deadlines and news cycles.
What can we do as a society, and as individuals, to help our caveman brains be more healthy.
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Has the feminisation of society created a world in which young men are discouraged from seeking out sexual partners? If so, can the damage be undone while retaining most of the positive aspects of feminism?
David I'm sure many who will watch this podcast are a little older, how does your research expand-out for those who can now live longer, stay fitter, and have drugs and surgeries that can prolong and "induce" sex drives and libido. What is the "evolution" in older peoples psychology re sex, in the context of such possibilities in western lifestyles?
Is it still true that most social scientists ignore or even deny the primacy evolutionary psychology in explaining so much of behavior? If so how do they reconcile their outspoken scorn for religious denials of evolution?
Good question. I’m quite baffled at how evolutionary psychology gets so much criticism.
Thanks. :) Isn't it fracking crazy!?! I was real close to changing my question to this "When the social scientists deny evolutionary psychology, what is the strongest and best argument in circulation? What case do they make that is at least worthy of steel-manning?"
Alternative question.
There is growing refocus in last few months on masculinity and young men and boys, especially around social media and influencers. Focusing a lot on 'Incels' and people like Andrew Tate.
(See netflix show Adolescence and Southgate's recent speech)
However, these critics often seem to misdiagnose this problem, or miss bits of of the formulation.
What do you think originally caused the vacuum that has lead to things like Incels' and Andrew Tate?
And, what problems might a resurgence over targeting and villainising of young men cause?
It's not controversial to say that genetically inherited traits lead to stronger and faster athletes. Is it more controversial to say the same for more intelligent people, and if so why?
I heard somewhere recently that narcissim has been increasing since the '60s. Is this true, and if so why?
I'm being purposefully reductionist...but...Was it actually women who created 'patriarchy' and 'toxic masculinity' through mate selection, at least in part or indirectly?
IE. By choosing the best protector/provider for millennia, did they inadvertently ingrain hypercompetitiveness, aggressiveness, strength, and emotional fortitude and drive for status into men, as those men would be the best mates??