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🗓️ 21 May 2022
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This week I spoke with David Buss, an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin. He is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary psychology, and his current research focuses on sex differences in mate selection, mate attraction, infidelity, and the emotions of jealousy, lust, and love.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Under the Skin from Illuminary. This week I spoke with David Bus and American |
0:04.5 | evolutionary psychologist at the University of Texas in Austin. He's one of the founders |
0:10.0 | of the field of evolutionary psychology, like along with people like Stephen Pinker and |
0:13.5 | Staff, he's currently searches on sex differences in mate selection, mate attraction, infidelity |
0:18.2 | and the emotions of jealousy, lust and love. But that didn't stop me trying to get him |
0:21.7 | to talk about corporate involvement in the way that, for example, we eat. Like I talked |
0:28.3 | him like a length about like, yeah, but because, for example, he bought the idea that |
0:32.0 | we eat a lot of fat and sugar because of its scarcity in our evolutionary history. And |
0:38.6 | I said, yeah, but people are trying to push us into eating fat and sugar. What's going on |
0:41.7 | with all that stuff? It's a really good conversation. I think you're really, really enjoying it. |
0:45.2 | Listen to shout outs. Here's some of your comments on previous episodes. |
0:53.6 | But Irie says, I just wanted to express my delight at your podcast. Educational, highly |
0:57.7 | interesting, funny and brilliant. I love it so much. I just heard the episode with Bob |
1:01.7 | Broth, beautiful and encouraging. I love the ending. We are all one. And I love the |
1:06.2 | Joe Dispenser podcast. Keep it up, you lovely man. They were both beautiful, educational |
1:11.1 | episodes and Bob Broth. He's a great teacher. And I'd like to speak to Joe Dispenser more. |
1:15.6 | Thanks for that, Irie. Kimberly Tway Alt. I just listened to your under the skin episode |
1:19.5 | with Michael Singer illuminating insightful, invigorating, are all words that came to mind. |
1:24.5 | I think about Michael Singer a lot of times I go running Kimberly and I think about Michael |
1:28.5 | Singer. I think about letting that pain pass through, letting pain pass through in grief |
1:35.2 | at the moment. I'm really sort of just trying to do what he suggests, which is watch it. |
1:40.3 | Randass says a similar thing that we must be able to observe grief and allow it to take |
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