Heather Heying Bret Weinstein: A Hunter Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century

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Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are evolutionary biologists who have been invited to ad­dress the US Congress, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Education, and have spoken before audi­ences across the globe. They both earned PhDs in Biology from the University of Michigan, where their research on evolution and adaptation earned awards for its quality and innovation. They have been visiting fellows at Princeton University, and before that were professors at the Ever­green State College for fifteen years.

Heather researched the evolution of social systems across a range of organisms, including humans. Her 2002 book, Antipode, is based on experiences in Madagascar studying the sex lives of poison frogs.

In 2002, Bret published The Reserve-Capacity Hypothesis, which proposed that the telomeric differences between humans and laboratory mice have led scientists to underestimate the risks new drugs pose to humans in the form of heart disease, liver dysfunction, & related organ failure.

They resigned from Evergreen in the wake of 2017 campus riots that focused in part on their opposition to a day of racial segregation and other college "equity" proposals. They cohost weekly livestreams of the DarkHorse podcast.

Their new book, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century outlines a science-based worldview that will empower you to live a better, wiser life. It is a provocative exploration of the tension between our evolutionary history and our modern woes--and what we can do about it.
We are living through the most prosperous age in all of human history, yet we are listless, divided, and miserable. Wealth and comfort are unparalleled, but our political landscape is unmoored, and rates of suicide, lone­liness, and chronic illness continue to skyrocket. How do we explain the gap between these truths? And how should we respond?
For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our troubles is clear: the accelerat­ing rate of change in the modern world has outstripped the capacity of our brains and bodies to adapt. We evolved to live in clans, but today many people don't even know their neighbors' names. In our haste to discard outdated gender roles, we increasingly deny the flesh-and-blood realities of sex--and its ancient roots. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we are not built for is killing us.
In this book, Heying and Weinstein draw on decades of their work teaching in college classrooms and explor­ing Earth's most biodiverse ecosystems to confront today's pressing social ills--from widespread sleep deprivation and dangerous diets to damaging parenting styles and back­ward education practices.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:03:32 The story of the book cover.
00:07:44 What's so fascinating about frogs?
00:11:08 Why do you "posit" that the modern world is out sync with humanity?
00:13:00 What's wrong with experimenting?
00:16:07 Why are we wired for novelty?
00:40:34 What are your obligations to humanity as a consumer?
00:51:33 What are WEIRD Countries?
00:51:36 What's wrong with Universities? Have they become sclerotic?
00:57:33 The Omega Principle.
01:04:32 Are there cultural telomeres?
AUDIENCE QUESTIONS:
01:20:31 What is the evolutionary purpose of music?
01:13:03 How important are explorer modes to evolution?
01:14:12 Opinions on processed foods.
01:17:55 What adaptions will chronic vitamin D defficiency create?
01:20:31 What is the future of evolutionary biology?
01:26:38 What are the evolutionary implications to colonizing other planets?
01:30:06 What would Heather put in her ethical will?
01:35:23 What would Bret put in his ethical will?

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